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Word Meanings - CREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An usher to a riding master. (more info) begotten; cf. It. creato pupil, servant, Sp. criado a servant,

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  • RIDGELING
    A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
  • RID
    imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.
  • RIDDEN
    p. p. of Ride.
  • USHERDOM
    The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
  • RIDICULER
    One who ridicules.
  • MASTERSHIP
    1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
  • MASTEROUS
    Masterly. Milton.
  • RIDDER
    One who, or that which, rids.
  • RIDERLESS
    Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
  • BEGOTTEN
    p. p. of Beget.
  • RIDGELET
    A little ridge.
  • RIDDLER
    One who riddles .
  • RIDGEBONE
    The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
  • RIDE
    LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. 1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your
  • RIDICULIZE
    To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman.
  • RIDEN
    imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.
  • MASTERFULLY
    In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
  • RIDDANCE
    1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker.
  • RIDGEBAND
    The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.
  • MASTERSINGER
    One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • PIPERIDINE
    An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
  • CHLORIDIZE
    See CHLORIDATE
  • BAGGAGE MASTER
    One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
  • AUROCHLORIDE
    The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
  • VIRIDITY
    1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
  • ANTHERIDIUM
    The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.
  • ARIDITY
    1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
  • OPHIURIDA
    See OPHIURIOIDEA
  • PERIDROME
    The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
  • CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
    A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
  • LUCERNARIDA
    A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa. A more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the Discophora.
  • PTERIDOPHYTA
    A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular
  • TOASTMASTER
    A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
  • ACRIDLY
    In an acid manner.
  • VIRIDINE
    A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine.

 

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