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.

• 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.
• Courageously
  In a courageous manner.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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