Word Meanings - CALLITHUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.

• Serenade
  Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
• Blow-off
  A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
• Discordant
  Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
• Hornsnake
  A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.
• Serenaded
  of Serenade
• Blow-out
  The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
• Hornstone
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• Serenader
  One who serenades.
• Accompanier
  He who, or that which, accompanies.
• Blowpipe
  A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
• Somewhat
  More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
• Accompaniment
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
• Blowpoint
  A child's game.
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• BLOWENBLOWESS
  A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.
• Accompanist
  The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• BLOWOFF
  as, a blow-off cock or pipe. 2. An outburst of temper or excitement. [Colloq.]

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