Word Meanings - HUNTERIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.

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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• DISCOVERT
  Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• DESCRIBENT
  See GENERATRIX
• DISCOVERY DAY
  = Columbus Day, above.
• DESCRIBE
  To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
• DESCRIBABLE
  That can be described; capable of description.
• SURGEONRY
  Surgery.
• DISCOVERMENT
  Discovery.
• DISCOVER
  descovrir, descouvrir, F. découvrir; des- + couvrir to 1. To uncover. Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal. 2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show . Go, draw
• DISCOVERABILITY
  The quality of being discoverable. Carlyle.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• HUNTER
  A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the
• SURGEON
  Any one of numerous species of chætodont fishes of the family Teuthidæ, or Acanthuridæ, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• SEA SURGEON
  A surgeon fish.
• INDISCOVERY
  Want of discovery.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• INDISCOVERABLE
  Not discoverable; undiscoverable. J. Conybeare.
• PREDISCOVERY
  A previous discovery.
• REDISCOVER
  To discover again.
• HEAD-HUNTER
  A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.