Word Meanings - HIGH-BUILT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

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• CASTLEWARD
  See CASTLEGUARD
• CASTLE
  1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. Coke. Our castle's strength Will laugh
• ELEPHANT
  A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• CASTLET
  A small castle. Leland.
• STRUCTURE
  Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building
• CASTLERY
  The government of a castle. Blount.
• ELEPHANTINE
  Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant ; hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. Elephantine epoch , the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.
• CASTLED
  Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag. 2. Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.
• LOFTY
  1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope. 2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. The high
• STRUCTURELESS
  Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane.
• ELEPHANTIASIS
  A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
• CASTLE-GUARD
  A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward. 3. A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
• ELEPHANTIAC
  Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
• STRUCTURED
  Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts. The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. H. Spencer.
• ELEPHANTOID; ELEPHANTOIDAL
  Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• SCREECH
  To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek. "The screech owl, screeching loud." Shak. (more info) Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skrækja to shriek, to screech, skrija to titter, Sw. skrika
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• SCREECHY
  Like a screech; shrill and harsh.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• CHRYSELEPHANTINE
  Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. Note: The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.
• WATER ELEPHANT
  The hippopotamus.
• SUPERSTRUCTURE
  all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively. You have added to your natural endowments the superstructure of study. Dryden. (more info) 1. Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised
• UNCASTLE
  To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.
• WHITE ELEPHANT
  Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession.
• CLINCHER-BUILT
  See CLINKER-BUILT