Word Meanings - COUCHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
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- LYRE BIRD
Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird , inhabiting New South Wales, - LYTHE
The European pollack; -- called also laith, and leet. - LYSIMETER
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight. - COUCHE
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point. - LYCOPODE
See LYCOPODIUM - LYTHONTHRIPTIC; LYTHONTRIPTIC
See LITHONTRIPTIC - LYONNAISE
Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley. - LYMPH
An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic - LYSSA
Hydrophobia. Note: The plural has been used to signify the pustules supposed to be developed under the tongue in hydrophobia. - LYNCH LAW
. The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law. Note: The term Lynch law is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But the origin - LYCINE
A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn . See Betaine. - LYAM
A leash. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - LYRIFEROUS
Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - LYMPHOGENIC
Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - LYCOPODIUM
A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceæ; club moss. Lycopodium powder, a fine powder or dust composed of the spores of Lycopodium, and other plants of the order Lycopodiaceæ. It is highly inflammable, and is sometimes used - ESCUTCHEON
The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base . That side of the escutcheon which is on the right - LYCHEE
See LITCHI - FAMILIARLY
In a familiar manner. - SAVELY
Safely. Chaucer. - LIVINGLY
In a living state. Sir T. Browne. - STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - POLYCHROITE
The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin. - LAUGHINGLY
With laughter or merriment. - SCOLYTID
Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively. - POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - WHIP-TOM-KELLY
A vireo native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo. - STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
See ETC - SUNDRILY
In sundry ways; variously. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - THIRSTILY
In a thirsty manner. - IMPISHLY
In the manner of an imp. - ASSISTANTLY
In a manner to give aid. - THERMALLY
In a thermal manner. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.