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Word Meanings - CURRISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart.

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Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

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  • CARPET
    packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
  • CARPOGENIC
    Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
  • CARPETBAG
    A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
  • CARPER
    One who carps; a caviler. Shak.
  • CARPETING
    1. The act of covering with carpets. 2. Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.
  • CARPOLOGY
    That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
  • SNEER
    1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
  • CARPENTER
    An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. Syn. -- Carpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner Supplies stairs, doors
  • CARPHOLOGY
    See FLACCILLATION
  • CARPOPHORE
    A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
  • SNAPPISH
    1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur. 2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope. Jeffrey. -- Snap"pish*ly, adv.
  • CARPUS
    The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
  • CARPOLOGIST
    One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
  • SNEERINGLY
    In a sneering manner.
  • CYNICALNESS
    The quality of being cynical.
  • CARPING
    Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.
  • CARPOPHYTE
    A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc. Note: The division of alge and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oöphytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or
  • CARPOLITE
    A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
  • CARPALE
    One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
  • CARPEL; CARPELLUM
    A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.
  • HYPOCARP; HYPOCARPIUM
    A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.
  • SYNCARPIUM
    See SYNCARP
  • SNARL
    To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
  • EXOCARP
    The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
  • MERICARP
    One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
  • ACARPELLOUS
    Having no carpels.
  • INSNARL
    To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave.
  • INOCARPIN
    A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut .
  • INTERMETACARPAL
    Between the metacarpal bones.
  • ENSNARL
    To entangle. Spenser.
  • ACANTHOCARPOUS
    Having the fruit covered with spines.
  • PERICARP
    The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
  • ACARPOUS
    Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

 

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