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Word Meanings - CARPALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

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  • ARTICULATOR
    One who, or that which, articulates; as: One who enunciates distinctly. One who prepares and mounts skeletons. An instrument to cure stammering.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • ARTICULATELY
    1. After the manner, or in the form, of a joint. 2. Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller. 3. With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.
  • SERIES MOTOR
    A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
  • SERIES
    Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.
  • BONESET
    A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
  • SERIES TURNS
    The turns in a series circuit.
  • CARPUS
    The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
  • ARTICULATIVE
    Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush.
  • SERIES WINDING
    A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.
  • ARTICULATE
    1. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. Bacon. 2. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants. 3. Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized
  • ARTICULATENESS
    Quality of being articulate.
  • BONESETTER
    One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
  • ARTICULATED
    1. United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. 2. Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.
  • ARTICULATA
    1. One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers. Note: It includes those Invertebrata having the body composed of ringlike segments . By some writers, the unsegmented worms have also
  • BONESHAW
    Sciatica.
  • ARTICULATION
    A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united , or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance , or they may be more or less freely movable, when the
  • WHETTLEBONES
    The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
  • ABARTICULATION
    Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
  • EXARTICULATE
    Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.
  • RACKABONES
    A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
  • INARTICULATELY
    In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
  • INARTICULATION
    Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.
  • INARTICULATE
    1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
  • INARTICULATED
    Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
  • SAWBONES
    A nickname for a surgeon.
  • NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
    A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
  • LAZYBONES
    A lazy person.
  • DIPTEROCARPUS
    A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
  • EXARTICULATION
    Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.
  • CROSSBONES
    A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

 

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