Word Meanings - GASKINS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins. Shak. 2. Packing of hemp. Simmonds. 3. A horse's thighs. Wright.

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• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• 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.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• PACKER
  A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• 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
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• BREECHES
  breech, breeches; akin to Icel. brok breeches, ODan. brog, D. broek, G. bruch; cf. L. bracae, braccae, which is of Celtic origin. Cf. 1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes. His jacket was red, and his breeches were
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• REPACKER
  One who repacks.
• SNIPPACK
  The common snipe.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• UNPACKER
  One who unpacks.
• SEA HORSE
  1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage
• PICKPACK
  Pickaback.