Word Meanings - HORNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to

Additional info about word: HORNING

Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith. Mozley & W.

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• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• HORN-MAD
  Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• HORNBOOK
  1. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• CRESCENT
  The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• HORNING
  Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• HORNY-HANDED
  Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• HORNET
  A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• DEHORN
  To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .
• PRONGHORN
  An American antelope , native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• THORNBUT
  The turbot.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• ALTHORN
  An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.
• ALPENHORN; ALPHORN
  A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.
• BUGLE HORN
  1. A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SUPERCRESCENT
  Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.