Word Meanings - FIN-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• PALMATE
  A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PALMATE; PALMATED
  Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray. Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. under Aves. Having
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• LOBATE; LOBATED
  Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. under
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• LOBATELY
  As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.
• GREBE
  One of several swimming birds or divers, of the genus Colymbus , aud allied genera, found in the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes. (more info) crest, W. crib comb, crest. So called
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• PALMATELY
  In a palmate manner.
• HAVILDAR
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.
• HAVELESS
  Having little or nothing. Gower.
• ACUTILOBATE
  Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• HYLOBATE
  Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• TOTIPALMATE
  Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving
• INGLOBATE
  In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.
• GLOBATE; GLOBATED
  Having the form of a globe; spherical.