Word Meanings - PEDESTRIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
Related words: (words related to PEDESTRIANISM)
- PEDESTRIAN
Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey. - WALK-MILL
A fulling mill. Halliwell. - RACONTEUR
A relater; a storyteller. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - RACHIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian. - RACA
A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless." Whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. Matt. v. 22. - RACEMATION
1. A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Sir T. Browne. 2. Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes. - RACHIS
The spine; the vertebral column. - RACY
1. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope. 2. Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong - TRAVELER
A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. - PEDESTRIANIZE
To practice walking; to travel on foot. - RACKETY
Making a tumultuous noise. - RACKABONES
A very lean animal, esp. a horse. - PRACTICER
1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson. - RACOVIAN
One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland. - RACLENESS
See CHAUCER - RACE
A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. - WALK
akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps; - RACEABOUT
A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit. - RUNNINGLY
In a running manner. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - CRACOVIENNE
A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time. - METATHORACIC
Of or pertaining to the metathorax. - TRACHEA
The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - CORACLE
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - CICHORACEOUS
Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type. - UNREGENERACY
The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill. - WRACK
A thin, flying cloud; a rack. - SUBBRACHIAL
Of or pertaining to the subbrachians. - PARACROSTIC
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C. - DIDRACHM; DIDRACHMA
A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents. - PROTHORACIC
Of or pertaining to the prothorax. - PARANTHRACENE
An inert isomeric modification of anthracene. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei.