Word Meanings - CHARIOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper. 2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• RACONTEUR
  A relater; a storyteller.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• RACA
  A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. Matt. v. 22.
• RACEMATION
  1. A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne. 2. Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
• RACHIS
  The spine; the vertebral column.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RACY
  1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope. 2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• RACKETY
  Making a tumultuous noise.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• CRACOVIENNE
  A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• CORACLE
  A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• CICHORACEOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• PARACROSTIC
  A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE