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Word Meanings - RINGLEADER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of

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1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

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  • ACTURE
    Action. Shak.
  • ACTURIENCE
    Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
  • ACTINOLITE
    A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
  • ACTINOSTOME
    The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
  • DANCER
    One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
  • CIRCLED
    Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
  • ACTINARIA
    A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
  • ACTUARIAL
    Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • ACTUATE
    Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
  • RINGLEADER
    1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
  • ACTINOPHOROUS
    Having straight projecting spines.
  • ACTION
    Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
  • ACTUAL
    1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
  • ACTINOST
    One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
  • ACTOR
    1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
  • ACTIONABLE
    That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
  • ACTINOLITIC
    Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • INACTUATE
    To put in action.
  • 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.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
    An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
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    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.

 

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