Word Meanings - CIRCULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases. (more info) 1. Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson. 2. Circulating, or going round. T. Warton.

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• GOAL
  Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
  An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
• GORGONIACEA
  One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• GOLDFINNY
  One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
• CIRCULARLY
  In a circular manner.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• GONOCALYX
  The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
• GOPHER
  1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• GOAF
  That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• CIRCULATORY
  Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases. (more info) 1. Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson. 2. Circulating, or going round. T. Warton.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• GONIMOUS
  Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
• GONOPHORE
  A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.
• GONGORISM
  An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote , among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• RUBIGO
  same as Rust, n., 2.
• SYRINGOCOELE
  The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• ISAGOGE
  An introduction. Harris.
• AGOUARA
  The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• FULGOR
  Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• PHYSIOGONY
  The birth of nature. Coleridge.