Word Meanings - HIMALAYAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

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• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• CHAIN PUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• MOUNTAIN STATE
  Montana; -- a nickname.
• MOUNTAINEER
  1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains. 2. A rude, fierce person. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.
• CHAIN WHEEL
  1. A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel. 2. An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.
• CHAINLESS
  Having no chain; not restrained or fettered. "The chainless mind." Byron.
• CHAIN TIE
  A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods.
• TOP-CHAIN
  A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• HOGCHAIN
  A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• GUNTER'S CHAIN
  The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
• SIDE-CHAIN THEORY
  A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outline it is as follows: Animal cells and bacteria are complex aggregations of molecules, which are themselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another
• DISENCHAINED
  Freed from restraint; unrestrained. E. A. Poe.
• SAFETY CHAIN
  A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. A chain of sheet metal links