Blucher: alternatives and connections

A half boot or short boot.

An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put in…

A small boot; a lady's boot.

A buskin or half-boot.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Coper…

Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, wh…

A monster, half maid and half serpent.

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue.

A kind of carp (Cyprinus gibelio); -- called also Prussian carp.

A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.

In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…