Word Meanings - ACROBAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
Related words: (words related to ACROBAT)
- GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - 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. - DARREIN
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - DARKNESS
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or - DANCY
See DANCETTé - DARING
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. - VAULTING
1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps. - VAULTY
Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak. - DARE
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they - DARKENING
Twilight; gloaming. Wright. - DARLINGTONIA
A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves. - DARER
One who dares or defies. - DARKLING
In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton. - DARKLE
To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - DARR
The European black tern. - VAULT
An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. - DANCERESS
A female dancer. Wyclif. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - AIDANCE
Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak. - PANDARIZE
To pander. - CEDARN
Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - ENVAULT
To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless.