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Word Meanings - PEDESTRIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

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  • 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.

 

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