Word Meanings - CAPYBARA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A large South American rodent Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai
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A large South American rodent Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.
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- BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - LIVINGLY
In a living state. Sir T. Browne. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - 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 - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - 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 . - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - 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; - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes. - ABERRATE
To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.