Word Meanings - NODDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum

Additional info about word: NODDY

1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

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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.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• INVERTASE
  An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• INVERTIN
  An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• HORSEFLESH
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• INVERTEDLY
  In an inverted order. Derham.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• NOTOTHERIUM
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• CATHERINE WHEEL
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• ARCTIC
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• SMOTHER
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• CYMOPHANOUS
  Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
• FOUR-WHEELER
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  Inapplicable. Milton.
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  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
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• REAR-HORSE
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