Word Meanings - WHIRLBAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to WHIRLBAT)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• WHIRLBAT
  Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.