Word Meanings - INTERNODE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to INTERNODE)

• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• 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.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• 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.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• ARISE
  1. To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• PHARISEEISM
  See PHARISAISM
• PHARISEAN
  Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. "Pharisean disciples." Milton.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• PHARISEE
  One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• CIRCULARISE
  1. to canvass by distributing letters. Syn. -- circularize. 2. to distribute circulars to. Syn. -- circularize. 3. to to pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse,