Badger-legged (a.) Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. |
Baker-legged (a.) Having legs that bend inward at the knees. |
Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs. |
Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. |
Burying ground () Alt. of Burying place |
Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold |
dog-legged (a.) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole. |
Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck |
Ground (imp. & p. p.) of Grind |
Ground (n.) The surface of the earth |
Ground (n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. |
Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface |
Ground (n.) Land |
Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests |
Ground (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another |
Ground (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. |
Ground (n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied |
Ground (n.) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle. |
Ground (n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached |
Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody. |
Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised |
Ground (n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids |
Ground (n.) The pit of a theater. |
Ground (v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground. |
Ground (v. t.) To found |
Ground (v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles. |
Ground (v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit. |
Ground (v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5) |
Ground (v. i.) To run aground |
Ground () imp. & p. p. of Grind. |
Hot-short (a.) More or less brittle when heated |
Legged (a.) Having (such or so many) legs |
Light-legged (a.) Nimble |
Middle-ground (n.) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. |
Near-legged (a.) Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. |
Puff-legged (a.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs. |
Red-short (a.) Hot-short |
Roller (n.) One who, or that which, rolls |
Roller (n.) A bandage |
Roller (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. |
Roller (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder |
Roller (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. |
Roller (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up |
Roller (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. |
Roller (n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves |
Roller (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight. |
Roller (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. |
Rough-legged (a.) Having the legs covered with feathers |
Short (superl.) Not long |
short sale short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
grounder ground ball groundball hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
roller | a grounder that rolls along the infield |
roller skating | skating on wheels |
whist long whist short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
dark ground illumination dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
shortstop short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
nap catnap cat sleep forty winks short sleep snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
rough-legged hawk roughleg Buteo lagopus | large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers |
harrier eagle short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
ground-shaker seismosaur | huge herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous found in western North America |
ground snake Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightlyinged terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
eastern ground snake Potamophis striatula Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
ground rattler massasauga Sistrurus miliaris | small pygmy rattlesnake |
Ixodes pacificus western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
Ixodes scapularis black-legged tick | parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England), northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) |
red-legged partridge Alectoris ruffa | common western European partridge with red legs |
roller tumbler tumbler pigeon | pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground |
roller | Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight, related to kingfishers |
European roller Coracias garrulus | common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back |
ground roller | Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms |
short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany, pointer and bloodhound |
hairy-legged vampire bat Diphylla ecaudata | similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus, of tropical America including southern California and Texas |
ground beetle carabid beetle | predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects |
short-horned grasshopper acridid | grasshopper with short antennae |
leaf roller leafoller | moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk |
ground squirrel gopher spermophile | any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds, often destroy crops |
mantled ground squirrel Citellus lateralis | common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America, resembles a large chipmunk |
flickertail Richardson ground squirrel Citellus richardsoni | of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada |
Arctic ground squirrel parka squirrel Citellus parryi | large ground squirrel of the North American far north |
eastern chipmunk hackee striped squirrel ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
barren ground caribou Rangifer arcticus | of tundra of northern Canada, in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus |
ground sloth megathere | gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America |
air-to-ground missile air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
anchor ground tackle | a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving |
ball bearing needle bearing roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
curler hair curler roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
flat coat ground primer priming primer coat priming coat undercoat | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
garden roller | heavy cast-iron cylinder used to flatten lawns |
ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
ground bait | bait scattered on the water to attract fish |
ground cable | a mooring cable, runs from a buoy to a mooring anchor |
ground control | a communication system for sending continuous radio messages to an airplane pilot who is making a groundontrolled approach to landing |