Word Meanings - SOMERSAULTSOMERSET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

• Dodecasyllable
  A word consisting of twelve syllables.
• Dowery
  See Dower.
• Dolly
  A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
• Turnstone
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of m
• Dooming
  of Doom
• Double-dye
  To dye again or twice over.
• Doer
  One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
• Downhearted
  Dejected; low-spirited.
• Doltish
  Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
• DOBELLSSOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.
• Doorpost
  The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
• Dog-brier
  The dog-rose.
• Downward
  Alt. of Downwards
• Domestic
  Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
• DOGHEARTED
  Inhuman; cruel. Shak.
• Doree
  A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.
• Breakwater
  Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
• Doublets
  See Doublet, 6 and 7.
• Dogger
  A two-masted fishing vessel, used by the Dutch.
• Doxologize
  To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.

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