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Word Meanings - CIRCUMNAVIGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

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  • SPECTACLE
    An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
  • SPERMATOCYTE
    See SPERMOBLAST
  • SPECIFICNESS
    The quality or state of being specific.
  • SPERMATIC
    Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • SPERMATICAL
    Spermatic.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • RANGEMENT
    Arrangement. Waterland.
  • TRAVEL
    1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
  • SPECTROGRAPH
    An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n.
  • SPECK
    The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
  • SPECE
    Species; kind. Chaucer.
  • SPECTATORSHIP
    1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • SPENDTHRIFT
    One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
  • SPEED COUNTER
    A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.
  • SPENCE
    despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately
  • SPERMATOZOOID
    A spermatozoid.
  • SPERGE
    A charge of wash for the still. Knight.
  • SPERMOPHYTE
    Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.
  • ENAVIGATE
    To sail away or over. Cockeram.
  • ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
    Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
  • ASPER
    Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • OOSPERM; OOESPERM
    The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.
  • ORANGEADE
    A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
  • DISPENSE
    1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2.
  • MISPENSE
    See HALL
  • CITRANGE
    A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
  • INDISPENSABLENESS
    The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
  • SUSPENSORY
    Of or pertaining to a suspensorium. (more info) 1. Suspended; hanging; depending. 2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray.

 

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