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Word Meanings - SLEIGHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of riding in a sleigh. 2. The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

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  • RIDGELING
    A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • SLEIGHTLY
    Cunningly. Huloet.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • RIDDEN
    p. p. of Ride.
  • SLEIGHT
    1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
  • RIDICULER
    One who ridicules.
  • SLEIGHTY
    Cunning; sly. Huloet.
  • RIDDER
    One who, or that which, rids.
  • RIDERLESS
    Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • RIDGELET
    A little ridge.
  • RIDDLER
    One who riddles .
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • RIDGEBONE
    The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • RUNNINGLY
    In a running manner.
  • RIDICULIZE
    To make ridiculous; to ridicule. Chapman.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • RIDEN
    imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.
  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • 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.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • CHLORIDIZE
    See CHLORIDATE
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • AUROCHLORIDE
    The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
  • VIRIDITY
    1. Greenness; verdure; the color of grass and foliage. 2. Freshness; soundness. Evelyn.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • OPHIURIDA
    See OPHIURIOIDEA
  • PERIDROME
    The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
  • CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
    A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

 

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