Word Meanings - ANCHORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. (more info) 1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - FORK
1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - TURNINGNESS
The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney. - ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle. - TURNING
The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - TURN-SICK
Giddy. Bacon. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - TURNVEREIN
A company or association of gymnasts and athletes. - RE-TURN
To turn again. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - DUNGFORK
A fork for tossing dung. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - NOCTURNAL
1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. - SATURNISM
Plumbum. Quain. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.