Word Meanings - CONCHO-SPIRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• SPIRALITY
  The quality or states of being spiral.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• UNIVALVE
  A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs. Note: Most univalves are spiral and are the shells of gastropods, but many belong to cephalopods and pteropods. A large number of
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• SPIRALOZOOID
  One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• SPIRALLY
  In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
• FOUNDERSHAFT
  The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• FOUNDRY
  1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• SPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing,
• CONCHO-SPIRAL
  A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
• SUSPIRAL
  1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.