Word Meanings - SWORDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Girded with a sword. Milton.

Related words: (words related to SWORDED)

• GIRDER
  One who girds; a satirist.
• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• SWORDING
  Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
• GIRDING
  That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.
• SWORDED
  Girded with a sword. Milton.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• GIRD
  1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. Tillotson. 2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. I thank thee for that gird, good
• SWORDFISH
  A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1. Swordfish sucker , a remora which attaches itself to the swordfish. (more info) A very large oceanic fish , the only representative of the family Xiphiidæ. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones
• GIRDLESTEAD
  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead. Chapman. 2. The lap. There fell a flower into her girdlestead. Swinburne.
• SWORD
  One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. -- Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. -- Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer
• GIRDLER
  An American longicorn beetle which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ. (more info) 1. One who girdles. 2. A
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• GIRDLE
  1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak. 2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in. Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak. 3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
• SWORDMAN
  A swordsman. "Sinewy swordmen." Shak.
• SWORDPLAY
  Fencing; a sword fight.
• SWORDER
  One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. Shak.
• SWORDPLAYER
  A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• UNGIRD
  To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.
• ENGIRD
  To gird; to encompass. Shak.
• BACKSWORD
  1. A sword with one sharp edge. 2. In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.
• PASSWORD
  A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.
• HALF-SWORD
  Half the length of a sword; close fight. "At half-sword." Shak.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.