Word Meanings - GATEPOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post. 2. A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - SWINGDEVIL
The European swift. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - 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. - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - SWINGE
See SPENSER - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - SWINGLE
1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure. - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - SWINGLETREE
A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. - SHUTTLEWISE
Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle. - CALLOSE
Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. - CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. - HINGED
Furnished with hinges. - HINGELESS
Without a hinge or joint. - 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. - SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. - ROUGHING-IN
The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it. - LAUGHINGLY
With laughter or merriment. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - SLOUGHING
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - RUCHING
A ruche, or ruches collectively. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - SCOTCHING
Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - LANDSTHING
See BELOW - SHINGLER
1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. - ACRONYCALLY
In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.