Word Meanings - VALKYRIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, (more info) Myth.)
Related words: (words related to VALKYRIA)
- BATTLE
Fertile. See Battel, a. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - PRESIDENT
Precedent. Bacon. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - REPRESENTANT
Appearing or acting for another; representing. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - MARK
A license of reprisals. See Marque. - PRESIDIAL; PRESIDIARY
Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell. (more info) praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See - MARKSMAN
One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. - MARKABLE
Remarkable. Sandys. - MARKIS
A marquis. Chaucer. - MARKER
One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An - REPRESENTATIVELY
In a representative manner; vicariously. - MAIDENSHIP
Maidenhood. Fuller. - MARKISESSE
A marchioness. Chaucer. - MARKEE
See MARQUEE - MARKED
Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - BOOKMARK
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate. - COMMARK
The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton. - REMARKER
One who remarks. - FOOTMARK
A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge. - SWANMARK
A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit. - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - COUNTERMARK
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark - EMBATTLEMENT
1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.