Word Meanings - MEDULLIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• MEDULLARY
  Filled with spongy pith; pithy. Medullary groove , a groove, in the epiblast of the vertebrate blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays , the rays of
• CELLULOSE
  Consisting of, or containing, cells.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• MEDULLA
  The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata. (more info) 1. Marrow; pith; hence, essence. Milton.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• MEDULLATED
  Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• LIGNIN
  A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents. Note: Recent authors have distinguished four forms of this substance, naming them lignose, lignin, lignone, and lignireose.
• MEDULLAR
  See MEDULLARY
• VARIETY
  1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• NITROCELLULOSE
  See GUN
• TRINITROCELLULOSE
  Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.