Word Meanings - TURKEY-TROT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive.

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An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

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• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DANCER
  One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• DANCY
  See DANCETTé
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• ECCENTRICAL
  See ECCENTRIC
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• ASSUMPTIVE
  Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms , originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• ASSUMABLY
  By way of assumption.
• DANCERESS
  A female dancer. Wyclif.
• ECCENTRIC
  Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine. 4. Not coincident as to motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon. 5. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice,
• ASSUMED
  1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
• DANCETTE
  Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
  Toward a town. Longfellow.
• TOWNLESS
  Having no town. Howell.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.