Word Meanings - STALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stabling. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to STALLING)

• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• STABLY
  In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.
• STABLISHMENT
  Establishment.
• STABLISH
  To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. 2 Sam. vii. 13.
• STABLE STAND
  The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• STABLING
  1. The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable. 2. A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle.
• STABLER
  A stable keeper. De Foe.
• STABLE
  1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose;
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• THERMOSTABLE
  Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• ESTABLISH
  L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;