Word Meanings - HORNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The British sand lance or sand eel . (more info) 1. One who works or deal in horn or horns. Grew. 2. One who winds or blows the horn. Sherwood. 3. One who horns or cuckolds. Massinger.

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• LANCEOLATE; LANCEOLATED
  Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• LANCEOLAR
  Lanceolate.
• LANCER
  1. One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm. 2. A lancet. 3. pl.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• LANCEGAY; LANCEGAYE
  A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer. (more info) same source as E. assagai, under the influence of F. lance lance. See
• WINDSOR
  A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence.
• BLOWSE
  See BLOWZE
• LANCET
  An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch , a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• LANCELY
  Like a lance. Sir P. Sidney.
• WINDSTORM
  A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
• LANCE
  A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. (more info) 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a
• LANCEPESADE
  An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. (more info) It. lancia spezzata a broken lance or demilance, a demilance roan, a
• LANCEWOOD
  A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family . Australian
• BRITISH
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restrict to the original inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr.
• LANCE FISH
  A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.
• HORNSNAKE
  A harmless snake , found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
• BRITISHER
  An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service.
• LANCELET
  A small fishlike animal , remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.
• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• DEMILANCE
  A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
• VALANCE
  p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent ; but 1. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak. 2. The drooping
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• ELANCE
  To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
• OBLANCEOLATE
  Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
• PETULANCE; PETULANCY
  The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• IMPARLANCE
  1. Mutual discourse; conference. Time given to a party to talk or converse with his opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long been merely to
• DEMILANCER
  A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• COUNTERBALANCE
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• SIBILANCE; SIBILANCY
  The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.