Word Meanings - BOOTHOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak. 2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

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• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• STOCKADE
  A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
• STOCKY
  1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
• STOCK-STILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• STOCKJOBBER
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• STOCKINET
  An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
• STOCKISH
  Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.
• STOCKFISH
  Young fresh cod. (more info) 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
• STOCKHOLDER
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• STOCKJOBBING
  The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
• STOCKINGER
  A stocking weaver.
• STOCKDOVE
  A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species,
• STOCKING
  A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods. (more info) covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• STOCK
  See DRYDEN (more info) stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant;
• BOOTS
  A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
• HORSEBACK
  1. The back of a horse. 2. An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half- stratified condition. Agassiz. On horseback, on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle. The long journey was to be performed
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BLUESTOCKINGISM
  The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
• UNDERSTOCK
  To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.
• DIESTOCK
  A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• AHORSEBACK
  On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.
• TREASURY STOCK
  Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
• TOP-BOOTS
  High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
• ROOTSTOCK
  A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
• GAZINGSTOCK
  A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.
• PENSTOCK
  1. A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses. 2. The barrel of a wooden pump.