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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.

 

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