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Word Meanings - DIASPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

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  • ALUMINATE
    A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
  • WHITECAP
    The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • WHITE FLY
    Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
  • NAMELESSLY
    In a nameless manner.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • NAMABLE
    Capable of being named.
  • ACCOUNTANTSHIP
    The office or employment of an accountant.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • HEATHER
    Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
  • ACCOUNTANCY
    The art or employment of an accountant.
  • HEATHENISHNESS
    The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • NAMELESS
    1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
  • WHITEWING
    The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
  • WHITEWALL
    The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
  • WHITE MUSTARD
    A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
  • NAMER
    One who names, or calls by name.
  • DYNAMO
    A dynamo-electric machine.
  • UNSHEATHE
    To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
  • DYNAMOMETRY
    The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • DYNAMOMETER
    An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by

 

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