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Word Meanings - LINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Flax; linen. "Garments made of line." Spenser. 2. The longer and fiber of flax.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • SUPPLICATE
    supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • ROUNDWORM
    A nematoid worm.
  • SUGGESTER
    One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • SUGGEST
    1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
  • PERSUADER
    One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • SECTIONALITY
    The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • SUCCESS
    1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
  • PERSUADED
    Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • OFFICEHOLDER
    An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • SUGGESTRESS
    A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
    Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • PRELUDE
    An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • INCONSEQUENCE
    The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiƦ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.

 

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