Word Meanings - MISSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
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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 . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - MISSEL
Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel. - THRUSHER
The song thrush. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - CALLOSE
Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. - CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - CALLIGRAPHY
Fair or elegant penmanship. - MISSELDINE
The mistletoe. Baret. - LARGE-ACRED
Possessing much land. - CALLOSAN
Of the callosum. - CALLIGRAPHIST
A calligrapher - CALLOUS
1. Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. T. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - 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. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - ACRONYCALLY
In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ. - PHYSIOLOGICALLY
In a physiological manner. - DIAMETRICALLY
In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay. - ETHNICALLY
In an ethnical manner. - ECCENTRICALLY
In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace. - IAMBICALLY
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - ATMOSPHERICALLY
In relation to the atmosphere.