Word Meanings - EMMET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ant. Emmet hunter , the wryneck.

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• EMMETROPIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia. The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly for all distances. J. Le Conte.
• EMMETROPY
  See EMMETROPIA
• WRYNECK
  Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species ; -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's
• HUNTER
  A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the
• HUNTERIAN
  Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
• WRYNECKED
  Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.
• EMMET
  An ant. Emmet hunter , the wryneck.
• EMMETROPIA
  That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.
• HEAD-HUNTER
  A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
• SHUNTER
  A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.
• TUFTHUNTER
  A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. Halliwell.
• WIDOW-HUNTER
  One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.