Word Meanings - GLOSSIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.
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- SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - BASKING SHARK
One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species. - BASIFY
To convert into a salifiable base. - BASILIC; BASILICAL
Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican. - BASS VIOL
A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello. - BASSWOOD
The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow. - BASTARDLY
Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv. - BASKET BALL
A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets. - USHERDOM
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. - BASAL
Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis. - USTULATE
Blackened as if burned. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - 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 - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - BASINET
See BASCINET - BASED
Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym: - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - BASIFIER
That which converts into a salifiable base. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - BASTE
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the - MENISCUS
A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent. - ANGUINEOUS
Snakelike. - PROTOGYNOUS
See PROTEROGYNOUS - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PALACIOUS
Palatial. Graunt. - RIPARIOUS
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian. - BUSH
The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See - PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes. - TROUSSEAU
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family. - POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. - CARNIVOROUS
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. - BARBAROUS
slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous - ANTIBILLOUS
Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. - RUSHED
Abounding or covered with rushes. - BICUSPID
One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.