Word Meanings - GORGONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.
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- GORGONIACEA
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce, - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - BOUNDLESS
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - CORALLUM
The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - CORALLIAN
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag. - GORGONZOLA
A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan. - CORALLIGENA
See ANTHOZOA - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - BOUNDING
Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery. - GORGONEAN
See 1 - STONE
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. Shak. (more info) sten, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. 1. Concreted earthy or - CORALLINITE
A fossil coralline. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - STONEWARE
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - STONERUNNER
The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - HOME-BOUND
Kept at home. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - OUTBOUND
Outward bound. Dryden. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - UNBOUND
imp. & p. p. of Unbind. - EYESTONE
Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, - OVERRIGOROUS
Too rigorous; harsh. - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - GALLSTONE
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.