Word Meanings - CRESTFALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
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- DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - COWWEED
See PARSLEY - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - COWLIKE
Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope. - UPPERMOST
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - COWARDICE
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay. - ABORTIVE
Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr. Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. (more info) 1. Produced by abortion; born - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - COW'S LUNGWORT
Mullein. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.