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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
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • SAVELY
    Safely. Chaucer.
  • FAMILIARLY
    In a familiar manner.
  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LAUGHINGLY
    With laughter or merriment.
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • 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.
  • SCOLYTID
    Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • SUNDRILY
    In sundry ways; variously.
  • THIRSTILY
    In a thirsty manner.
  • 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.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • SPANGLY
    Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
  • ASSISTANTLY
    In a manner to give aid.
  • PRECIPITATELY
    In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • IMPISHLY
    In the manner of an imp.

 

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