Word Meanings - HARNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.

• Horselaugh
  A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
• Horseshoeing
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• ARMOREDCRUISER
  A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first hav
• Completement
  Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
• Generalities
  of Generality
• Generality
  The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
• Horseback
  The back of a horse.
• Horse-leech
  A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
• Horsetail
  A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
• ARMORICARMORICAN
  Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.
• Completeness
  The state of being complete.
• Generalizable
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
• Horse-chestnut
  The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
• Horse-leechery
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• Horseweed
  A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.
• ARMORPLATED
  Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).
• Generalization
  The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

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