Word Meanings - KILLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - ANCHORET; ANCHORITE
One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - INCLOSER
One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - FORME
See PATTé - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - ANCHOR LIGHT
The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - FORMYL
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.