Word Meanings - KERASINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

Related words: (words related to KERASINE)

• HORNY-HANDED
  Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
• HORNY
  1. Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay. 2. Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray. 3. Hard; callous. "His horny fist." Dryden.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• HORNYHEAD
  Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
• CORNEOUS
  Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. Sir T. Browne.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• THORNY
  1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The
• SUBCORNEOUS
  Situated under a horny part or layer. Partially horny.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.