Word Meanings - IMPOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne.

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• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• SOLIDIFY
  To become solid; to harden.
• SOLIDUNGULATE
  See SOLIPED
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• SOLIDATE
  To make solid or firm. Cowley.
• SOLIDLY
  In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• SOLIDISM
  The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• SOLID
  A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides. Solid of revolution. See Revolution, n., 5. (more info) 1. A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance
• SOLIDNESS
  1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies. 2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
• CLOSE-BODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• PRETEXTURE
  A pretext.
• CLOSE
  to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
• PERCLOSE
  See RALEIGH
• INTERCLOSE
  To shut in; to inclose.