Word Meanings - WATTLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. The wattled cocks strut to and fro. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to WATTLED)

• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• THROATLATCH
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.
• STRUT
  1. To swell; to bulge out. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden. 2. To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.
• WATTLED
  Furnished with wattles, or pendent fleshy processes at the chin or throat. The wattled cocks strut to and fro. Longfellow.
• COCKSPUR
  A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn , having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
• PENDENTLY
  In a pendent manner.
• COCKSHEAD
  A leguminous herb , having small spiny-crested pods.
• PENDENTIVE
  The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
• COCKSHUT
  A kind of net to catch woodcock. Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. Shak. B. Jonson.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
• COCKSHY
  1. A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks. 2. An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy
• THROATWORT
  A plant formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.
• STRUTHIO
  A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• THROATY
  Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.
• STRUTHIAN
  Struthious.
• COCKSURE
  1. Perfectly safe. We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak. 2. Quite certain. I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• WATTLEBIRD
  Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochæra and allied genera of the family Meliphagidæ. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• DISAPPENDENT
  Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• TWITTLE-TWATTLE
  Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.
• RUBYTHROAT
  Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.