Word Meanings - IRONSIDES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• VETERAN
  Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill. The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists
• HARDY
  A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
• VETERANIZE
  To reënlist for service as a soldier. Gen. W. T. Sherman.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• SOLDIERSHIP
  Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• CUIRASSIER
  A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.
• APPLICATORY
  Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
• CAVALRY
  That part of military force which serves on horseback. Note: Heavy cavalry and light cavalry are so distinguished by the character of their armament, and by the size of the men and horses.
• APPLIMENT
  Application. Marston
• APPLICANT
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SHARDY
  Having, or consisting of, shards.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• UNAPPLICABLE
  Inapplicable.