Word Meanings - BUCKBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - HAVENER
A harbor master. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - RESTAGNATE
To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman. - WAGON
The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - RESTRICT
Restricted. - RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTAGNANT
Stagnant; motionless. Boyle. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNFRAME
To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden. - TERRESTRIFY
To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - SIDEBOARD
A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton. - WEATHERBOARDING
The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - FOUR-WHEELER
A vehicle having four wheels. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.