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Word Meanings - KNOBBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

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  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • ENDENIZATION
    The act of naturalizing.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • ENDOGENY
    Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
  • ENDENIZE
    To endenizen.
  • ENDOTHECIUM
    The inner lining of an another cell.
  • ENDOSCOPE
    An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
  • BOTTOMRY
    A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
  • ENDOPLASM
    The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
  • BOTTOM
    1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their 2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom
  • POINT
    puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort
  • ENDOCHROME
    The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
  • ENDALL; END-ALL
    Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
  • ENDOSTYLE
    A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
  • ENDURANT
    Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
  • ENDERON
    The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • ENDODERMIS
    A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
  • HORNSTONE
    A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • AMENDFUL
    Much improving.
  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • OFFENDANT
    An offender. Holland.
  • GENDER
    A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
  • ACCENDIBILITY
    Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
  • SULPHUR-BOTTOM
    A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
  • STIPEND
    Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SHENDFUL
    Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
  • DECRESCENDO
    With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
  • SEA LAVENDER
    See MARSH
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • FACIEND
    The multiplicand. See Facient,
  • SPLENDIDIOUS
    Splendid.
  • DENDRIFORM
    Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
  • FRIENDED
    1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
  • STIPENDIARIAN
    Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

 

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