Word Meanings - ACRANIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wanting a skull.

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• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• WANTY
  A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon
• WANTRUST
  Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. Chaucer.
• WANT
  A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. Syn. -- Indigence; deficiency; defect; destitution; lack; failure; dearth; scarceness. (more info) 1. The state of not having; the condition of being without
• WANTING
  Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.
• WANTONLY
  1. In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously. 2. Unintentionally; accidentally. J. Dee.
• SKULL
  A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• SEAWAN; SEAWANT
  The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many
• SAPSKULL
  A saphead.
• AWANTING
  Missing; wanting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• CALAVERAS SKULL
  A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the
• THICKSKULL
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.