Word Meanings - HORIZON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.

• POINTAPPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• Earthbred
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• Earthquake
  A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earth
• Surface
  The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
• POINTBLANK
  In a point-blank manner. To sin point-blank against God's word. Fuller.
• Earthdin
  An earthquake.
• Earthquave
  An earthquake.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• Surfaced
  of Surface
• POINTDAPPUI
  See under Appui.
• Apparent
  Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
• Earthdrake
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
• Earth shine
  See Earth light, under Earth.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Surfacer
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• POINTDEVICEPOINTDEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.
• Apparently
  Visibly.
• Earthshock
  An earthquake.

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