Word Meanings - BLEATER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.
Related words: (words related to BLEATER)
- STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - SHEEP'S-FOOT
A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer. - SHEEP-HEADED
Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor - SHEEPBITER
One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange. - SHEEPSKIN
1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - SHEEPSHEAD
A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other - STIFFTAIL
The ruddy duck. - SHEEP'S-EYE
A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley. - SHEEP-FACED
Over-bashful; sheepish. - STIFFISH
Somewhat stiff. - STIFFNESS
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South. - COMPLAINTFUL
Full of complaint. - SHEEPSPLIT
A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine. - COMPLAINANT
1. One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. One who commences a legal process by a complaint. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and - SHEEPHOOK
A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden. - COMPLAIN
plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or - SHEEPBITE
To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts. Shak. - STIFF-NECKED
Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people. Ex. xxxii. 9. - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - AGOUTI; AGOUTY
A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.