Word Meanings - HELIOTROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.

Related words: (words related to HELIOTROPE)

• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• ARRIVANCE
  Arrival. Shak.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• ARRIVE
  arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or 1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at , also by in and
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• ARRIVER
  One who arrives.
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
  An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear