Word Meanings - WAG-HALTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.

Related words: (words related to WAG-HALTER)

• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• HALTER
  One who halts or limps
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• HANGDOG
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
• HALTERES
  Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
• HANG
  Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also i., fr. h, v. t. ; akin to OS. hang, v. i. D. hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, hängen, v. t, Isel hanga, v.
• HANGMAN
  One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
• HANG-BY
  A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.
• LIKELY
  1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to
• HANGER-ON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• HALTER-SACK
  A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. Beau. & Fl.
• HANGING
  1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" Dryden. 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the
• HANGNEST
  1. A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket. 2. A bird which builds such a nest; a hangbird.
• HANGMANSHIP
  The office or character of a hangman.
• HANGBIRD
  The Baltimore oriole ; -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• UNHANG
  1. To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room. 2. To remove from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• WHANGHEE
  See WANGHEE
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• OVERHANG
  1. To impend or hang over. Beau. & Fl. 2. To hang over; to jut or project over. Pope.
• ARCHANGELIC
  Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• INCHANGEABILITY
  Unchangeableness. Kenrick.