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Word Meanings - ELBOWROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

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  • SCOPELINE
    Scopeloid.
  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • GRASSLESS
    Destitute of grass.
  • AMPLENESS
    The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • SCOPE
    1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope."
  • SCOPELOID
    Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n.
  • EXTEND
    To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
  • GRASSPLOT
    A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • EXTENDIBLE
    Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
  • GRASS-GROWN
    Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • STRETCHING
    from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.
  • ALEPPO GRASS
    One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
  • HAEMATOSCOPE
    A hæmoscope.
  • UNEXAMPLED
    Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • METEOROSCOPE
    An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
  • OTOSCOPEIC
    Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
  • REACTIONIST
    A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
  • ENDOSCOPE
    An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
  • MICROSPECTROSCOPE
    A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
    The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
  • STEREOMONOSCOPE
    An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
  • REDACTION
    The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
  • CHYLIFACTION
    The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
  • TELESPECTROSCOPE
    A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.
  • FACTION
    One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,

 

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