Word Meanings - FOOTPACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.

Related words: (words related to FOOTPACE)

• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• LANDREEVE
  A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
• LANDFLOOD
  An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
• WALK
  akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
• LANDWARD
  Toward the land.
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• LANDGRAVIATE
  1. The territory held by a landgrave. 2. The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• ALTARWISE
  In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.
• LANDOWNER
  An owner of land.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• LANDLOUPING
  Vagrant; wandering about.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• LANDWAITER
  See A
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• ROSLAND
  heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• ENGARLAND
  To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
• MALANDERS
  A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• GARLANDLESS
  Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• FORELAND
  A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. (more info) 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.