Word Meanings - CIRCUMSCISSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around . See Illust. of Pyxidium.
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- OPENNESS
The quality or state of being open. - FISSURE
A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole - ILLUSTROUS
Without luster. - OPEN SEA
A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum. - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - ILLUSTRIOUS
1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - AROUND
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took - PYXIDIUM
A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane. The theca of mosses. - EXTEND
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended - OPEN
1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures - OPEN-MOUTHED
Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange. - TRANSVERSELY
In a transverse manner. - ILLUSTRATIVELY
By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne. - EXTENDIBLE
Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded. - ILLUSTRATIVE
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious. - DEHISCE
To gape; to open by dehiscence. - ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame. - OPENLY
1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show - DEHISCENT
Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant. - PROPENE
See PROPYLENE - PROPENSE
Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n. - INTERTRANSVERSE
Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ. - SCOLOPENDRINE
Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra. - TWOPENNY
Of the value of twopence. - PROPENSION
The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak. - COPENHAGEN
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.