Word Meanings - LIBRIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the form of liber, or resembling liber. Libriform cells, peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.

Related words: (words related to LIBRIFORM)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• LIBERATORY
  Tending, or serving, to liberate.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• WALLETEER
  One who carries a wallet; a foot traveler; a tramping beggar. Wright.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• LIBRIFORM
  Having the form of liber, or resembling liber. Libriform cells, peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• WALLING
  1. The act of making a wall or walls. 2. Walls, in general; material for walls. Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• LIBERTINAGE
  Libertinism; license.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• POT-WALLOPER
  1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled his own pot in the parish for six months. 2. One who cleans pots; a scullion.
• ENWALL
  See SIDNEY
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.