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Word Meanings - COALSACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

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  • OWNER
    One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • CLOUD
    arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
  • CROSSJACK
    The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
  • ABSENCE
    1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • CLOUDINESS
    The state of being cloudy.
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • CROSSGRAINED
    1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
  • BLACK FLAGS
    An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • DOWNWEED
    Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • DOWNPOUR
    A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • OVERBROW
    To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
  • ROWDY
    One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
  • SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
    An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
  • TOWELING
    Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
  • KNOWINGLY
    1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • SORROW
    The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great

 

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