Word Meanings - FLIGHT-SHOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.

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• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• ARROWY
  1. Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. 2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the
• 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.
• FIFTHLY
  In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
• FLIGHTINESS
  The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• 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.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• FLIGHTILY
  In a flighty manner.
• ARROWWOOD
  A shrub growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.
• FIFTH
  1. Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five. 2. Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men , a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• BOWSHOT
  The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
• FLIGHTED
  Feathered; -- said of arrows. (more info) 1. Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.
• FLIGHT-SHOT
  The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• ARROWHEADED
  Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform. Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters;
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• HARROWER
  One who harrows.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• NEMATHELMINTHES; NEMATELMINTHES
  An order of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.