Word Meanings - SNAIL-PACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

Related words: (words related to SNAIL-PACED)

• PACA
  A small South American rodent , having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• PACTOLIAN
  Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• PACHYDERMATOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to the pachyderms. 2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• PACIFICATION
  The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.
• PACKER
  A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• PACIFICATORY
  Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.
• PACHYMETER
  See PACHOMETER
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• PACHYDACTYL
  A bird or other animal having thick toes.
• PACANE
  A species of hickory. See Pecan.
• PACHYOTE
  One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.
• PACHONTA
  A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.
• PACABLE
  Placable. Coleridge.
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• CARAPACE
  The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
• OPACITY
  1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.
• RECAPACITATE
  To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• RAMPACIOUS
  High-spirited; rampageous. Dickens.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• REPACKER
  One who repacks.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.