Word Meanings - CALYPTRA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• SEPOSITION
  The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• ANTEPOSITION
  The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.