Word Meanings - STANHOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

• Wheelmen
  of Wheelman
• LIGHTBOAT
  Light-ship.
• WHEELOFFORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Lighting
  of Light
• Light-handed
  Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
• Wheelman
  One who rides a bicycle or tricycle; a cycler, or cyclist.
• LIGHTFINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• WHEELSHAPED
  Expanding into a flat, circular border at top, with scarcely any tube; as, a wheel-shaped corolla.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Lightable
  Such as can be lighted.
• Light-headed
  Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
• Light-ship
  A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
• Wheel-shaped
  Shaped like a wheel.
• LIGHTFOOTLIGHTFOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• WHEELWORN
  Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.

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