Word Meanings - GRIBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

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• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ISOPODOUS
  See ISOPOD
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SUBMERGENCE
  The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• MARINERSHIP
  Seamanship. Udalt.
• MARINER
  One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• ISOPOD
  Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda. -- n.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ANISOPODA
  A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• FUMARINE
  An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.