Word Meanings - KILLESSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gutter, groove, or channel. A hipped roof. Parker.

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• HIPPOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• HIPPOCAMP
  See HIPPOCAMPUS
• HIPPARION
  An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,
• HIPPOGRIFF
  A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.
• HIPPOCRATISM
  The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
• HIPPOTOMY
  Anatomy of the horse.
• CHANNEL
  A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel. 4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging
• HIPPOCENTAUR
  See CENTAUR
• HIPPOCAMPAL
  Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.
• HIPPOCRAS
  A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
• GUTTERSNIPE
  A small poster, suitable for a curbstone. A curbstone broker.
• PARKERIA
  A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
• HIPPOPHAGISM
  Hippophagy. Lowell.
• HIPPOCREPIFORM
  Shaped like a horseshoe.
• HIPPOBOSCA
  A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can, a.
• HIPPOLITH
  A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.
• HIPPODROME
  A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races. 2. An arena for equestrian performances; a circus.
• HIPPURITE
  A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper valve or lid. Hippurites are found only in the Cretaceous rocks.
• MESOHIPPUS
  An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.
• SHIPPO
  Cloisonné enamel on a background of metal or porcelain.
• WHIPPING
  a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
• SHIPPER
  One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• CHIPPEWAYS
  A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.
• COAL-WHIPPER
  One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. Dickens.
• WHIPPLETREE
  The cornel tree. Chaucer. (more info) 1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree.
• RESHIPPER
  One who reships.
• SHIPPING
  1. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns. 2. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.