Word Meanings - SOUTHDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England. Southdown sheep , a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South
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Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England. Southdown sheep , a celebrated breed of shortwooled, hornless sheep, highly valued on account of the delicacy of their flesh. So called from the South Downs where the breed originated.
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- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - PASTURER
One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - HILLSIDE
The side or declivity of a hill. - RANGEMENT
Arrangement. Waterland. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - FLESHMENT
The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - LIBRETTO
A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves. - ESTRANGE
extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and - ORANGEADE
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - DERANGER
One who deranges.