Word Meanings - AEGICRANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• SCULPTURESQUE
  After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.
• SCULPTURE
  1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. 2. Carved work
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• HEADSAIL
  Any sail set forward of the foremast. Totten.
• CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
  The quality of being classical.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• CLASSICALLY
  1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. 2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
• HEADSHAKE
  A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• REPRESENT
  To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the
• CLASSICALISM
  1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism. 2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
• HEADSHIP
  Authority or dignity; chief place.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• INSCULPTURED
  Engraved. Glover.
• FLOORHEADS
  The upper extermities of the floor of a vessel.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.