Word Meanings - AMPHIBIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the classes of vertebrates. Note: The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living
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One of the classes of vertebrates. Note: The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living orders: The tailless, as the frogs ; The tailed , as the salamanders, and the siren group , which retain the gills of the young state (hence called Perennibranchiata) through the adult state, among which are the siren, proteus, etc.; The Coecilians, or serpentlike Amphibia , with minute scales and without limbs. The extinct Labyrinthodonts also belonged to this class. The term is sometimes loosely applied to both reptiles and amphibians collectively.
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- LIVINGLY
In a living state. Sir T. Browne. - YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - LIVRAISON
A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. - LIVINGNESS
The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening. - LIVED
Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived. - LIVE
liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the - HAVENER
A harbor master. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - THREE-MILE
Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state. - THREE-PILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - UNDERGORE
To gore underneath. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - LIVERWORT
1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same - DELIVERANCE
Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - REDELIVER
1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak. - OLIVARY
Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - OLIVINE
A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks. - COD LIVER
The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.