Word Meanings - MESOSCAPULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.

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• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINED
  Furnished with spines; spiny.
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• SCAPULARY
  See A
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• SPINE-FINNED
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• SPINETED
  Slit; cleft.
• SPINELESS
  Having no spine.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• SPINEBACK
  A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• PROCESSIONING
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Bouvier.
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
  Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
• INFRASCAPULAR
  Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
• PAYNE'S PROCESS
  A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.