Word Meanings - GROOVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who or that which grooves. 2. A miner. Holloway.

Related words: (words related to GROOVER)

• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• 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.
• 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.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• MINERALOGIST
  A carrier shell . (more info) 1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
• MINERAL
  1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• MINER
  1. One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners. Any of numerous insects which, in the
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• CALCIMINER
  One who calcimines.
• UNDERMINER
  One who undermines.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• TERMINER
  A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.
• EXAMINER
  One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.