Word Meanings - HORSEGUARDS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London.

• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Chiefless
  Without a chief or leader.
• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• Guardsmen
  of Guardsman
• Horsehead
  The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
• Horse-radish
  A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
• Regiment
  Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
• Sovereignize
  To exercise supreme authority.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Stateprison
  See under State, n.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CHIEFBARON
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
• Chiefly
  In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Guardsman
  One who guards; a guard.
• Horsehide
  The hide of a horse.
• Horserake
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• Regimented
  of Regiment

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