Word Meanings - HALLUX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DIGITAL
  Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DIGITIGRADE
  Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• DIGITALIN
  Any one of several extracts of foxglove , as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties. A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts.
• DIGITIZE
  To finger; as, to digitize a pen. Sir T. Browne. computers to convert into a form expressible in binary notation
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• DIGITATE
  To point out as with the finger. Robinson .
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• SEXDIGITIST
  One who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
• INDIGITATION
  The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication. Dr. H. More.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• IMPARIDIGITATE
  Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.
• DISCORRESPONDENT
  Incongruous. W. Montagu.
• PRESTIDIGITATION
  Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.