Word Meanings - THOROUGHBRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like.
- Courageously
In a courageous manner. - Haversian
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. - Stockading
of Stockade - Stocky
Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. - Blood money
Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. - Bloodwood
A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. - Bloodwort
A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyein - Courageousness
The quality of being courageous; courage. - Havildar
In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. - Stock-blind
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - Through
From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship. - Bloodroot
A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstoc - Elegant
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; gracefu - Stockbroker
A broker who deals in stocks. - Throughly
Thoroughly. - Bloodshed
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder. - Bloodied
of Bloody
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