Word Meanings - DENTITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The system of teeth peculiar to an animal. (more info) 1. The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.