Word Meanings - ACANTHUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
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- MINOR
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode, - INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - BREECH-LOADING
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - MINORAT
A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest - MINORATION
A diminution. Sir T. Browne. - BREECH PIN; BREECH SCREW
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - PLEUROPERITONEUM
The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. - ALLUMINOR
An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. Cowell.