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Word Meanings - RACEABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • RACONTEUR
    A relater; a storyteller.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • RACHIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • 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
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • RACKETY
    Making a tumultuous noise.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • SQUARE-TOED
    Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
  • RACKABONES
    A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
  • SQUARELY
    In a square form or manner.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • 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.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • TRACHEA
    The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
  • METATHORACIC
    Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • THREE-SQUARE
    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • CICHORACEOUS
    Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • 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.

 

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