Word Meanings - CRASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

Related words: (words related to CRASHING)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• FALLOPIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• FALLENCY
  An exception. Jer. Taylor.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• MISFALL
  To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak