Word Meanings - EARWIG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• GENERALISSIMO
  The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• GENERATIVE
  Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence