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Word Meanings - CROSSBONES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

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  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • SYMBOLISM
    The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
  • SKELETON
    Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal. Skeleton bill, a bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • SERVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
  • BONESET
    A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • SYMBOLIZATION
    The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation. Sir T. Browne.
  • SKULLFISH
    A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
  • SERVALINE
    Related to, or resembling, the serval.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • WHETTLEBONES
    The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.

 

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