Word Meanings - SHERRYVALLIES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. Bartlett.

Related words: (words related to SHERRYVALLIES)

• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• RIDDEN
  p. p. of Ride.
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICKSET
  1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.
• BARTLETT
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• RIDDER
  One who, or that which, rids.
• RIDERLESS
  Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• CHLORIDIZE
  See CHLORIDATE
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• VIRIDITY
  1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
• AUROCHLORIDE
  The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
• RID
  imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.
• ANTHERIDIUM
  The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• OPHIURIDA
  See OPHIURIOIDEA
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• PERIDROME
  The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.