Word Meanings - ACROBATISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.
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- 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. - DARREIN
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. - ACROBATIC
Pertaining to an acrobat. -- Ac`ro*bat"ic*al*ly, adv. - 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 - 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 - ACROBATISM
Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting. - 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. - 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. - DARWINIAN
Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin - DARG; DARGUE
A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. - DART
A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac , a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure. (more info) 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - PANDARIZE
To pander. - CEDARN
Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. - ENVAULT
To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift. - GENDARMERY
The body of gendarmes. - REDARGUE
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, - ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
See ZAMINDARY - HEBDOMADARY
A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors. - PINDARICAL
Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley. - BORDAR
A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green. - RESSALDAR
In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.