Word Meanings - BIPRISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees. 2. A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.
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- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - GLASSEN
Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson. - REFRACTOR
Anything that refracts; specifically: - REFRACTIVE
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction - CALLER
1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. - PRISM
A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. Note: Prisms of different forms are often named from the figure of their bases; as, a triangular prism, a quadrangular - REFRACTED
Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf. 2. Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light. - CALL
1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - RECTANGULARITY
The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled. - GLASSINESS
The quality of being glassy. - GLASSWORT
A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - GLASS-ROPE
A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - REFRACTABLE
Capable of being refracted. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv. - SCARCEMENT
An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - DIPRISMATIC
Doubly prismatic. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - ACRONYCALLY
In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ. - UNTANGLE
To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior. - BRANGLE
A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused