Word Meanings - CLUMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Related words: (words related to CLUMBER)
- FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - SHORTLY
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in - UNLIKEN
To make unlike; to dissimilate. Wyclif. - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - OTHER
andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second - SHORT-DATED
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys. - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SHORT-WAISTED
Having a short waist. - FIELDED
Engaged in the field; encamped. To help fielded friends. Shak. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - NORFOLK SPANIEL
One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - ISOTHERMAL
Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram - EEL-MOTHER
The eelpout. - ISOTHERMOBATHIC
Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. - BLENHEIM SPANIEL
A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - MOTHER'S DAY
A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who - STEPMOTHER
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.