Word Meanings - CATLINITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

Related words: (words related to CATLINITE)

• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• PIPESTONE
  A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• PIPESTEM
  The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
• APHOTIC REGION
  A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.
• TRANSREGIONATE
  Foreign. Holinshed.
• SCUPPER
  An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. Scupper hose , a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of