Word Meanings - PUTTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.

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• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• RAIS
  See REIS
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• PUTT
  A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• PUTTING GREEN
  The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
• RAISING
  1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• HEBRAIST
  One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.