Word Meanings - HEADLIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.

• Placidness
  The quality or state of being placid.
• Godless
  Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
• THROWCROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• Gonotheca
  A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• Goth
  One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
• Nightman
  One whose business is emptying privies by night.
• Placophora
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• Godwit
  One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica), and others, are valued a
• Goodliness
  Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.
• Gouger
  See Plum Gouger.
• Place
  Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
• tracking
  of Track
• Goggle-eyed
  Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
• Gode-year
  The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath.
• Gournet
  A fish. See Gurnet.
• GOAPOWDER
  A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• Golden
  Made of gold; consisting of gold.
• Goot
  A goat.
• Governance
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.
• Frontless
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.

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