Word Meanings - TILT-YARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A yard or place for tilting. "The tilt-yard of Templestowe." Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to TILT-YARD)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TILTH
  1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey. 2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• TILT-MILL
  A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.
• PLACENTIFEROUS
  Having or producing a placenta.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• TILTER
  1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville. 2. One who operates a tilt hammer.
• PLACENTATION
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• PLACE-PROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
• PLACEFUL
  In the appointed place.
• TILT-UP
  See TIP-UP
• TILT HAMMER
  A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• BY-PLACE
  A retired or private place.
• SELF-COMPLACENCY
  The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
• MISPLACE
  To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
• EMPLACEMENT
  A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
• DISPLACEABLE
  Capable of being displaced.
• INTERPLACE
  To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. Daniel.
• ATILT
  1. In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras. 2. In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. Note: Abroach, atilt, and run Even to the lees of honor. Beau.