Word Meanings - LIBYAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.

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• AFRICAN
  Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant . -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• OCEAN
  1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• EGYPTOLOGY
  The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics. Eh, interj. Etym:
• LIBYAN
  Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.
• OCEANUS
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• OCEANOLOGY
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• AFRICANDER
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• OCEANOGRAPHY
  A description of the ocean.
• EGYPTOLOGICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.
• EGYPTIZE
  To give an Egyptian character or appearance to. Fairbairn.
• OCEANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. 2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
• TRANSATLANTIC
  1. Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Note: When used by a person in Europe or Africa, transatlantic signifies being in America; when by a person in America, it denotes being or lying in Europe or Africa, especially the former. 2. Crossing
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• EGYPTIAN
  Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa. Egyptian bean. The beanlike fruit of an aquatic plant , somewhat resembling the water lily. See under Bean, -- Egyptian cross. See Illust. of Cross. -- Egyptian thorn , a medium-sized tree . It is one of