Word Meanings - WALK-OVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize; hence, colloquially, a one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.

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• GOAL
  Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
  An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• GORGONIACEA
  One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• GOLDFINNY
  One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• GONOCALYX
  The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
• GOPHER
  1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• GOAF
  That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace
• RACONTEUR
  A relater; a storyteller.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• VICTORY
  The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side,
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• RUBIGO
  same as Rust, n., 2.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• SYRINGOCOELE
  The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• ISAGOGE
  An introduction. Harris.
• AGOUARA
  The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
• FULGOR
  Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne.
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• CRACOVIENNE
  A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• 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.