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Word Meanings - MOLECULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state. (more info) 1. One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed
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The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state. (more info) 1. One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.
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- CORPUSCLE
A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone - SPECK
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel. - SCRAPING
1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street. - SPECKLED-BILL
The American white-fronted goose . - SPECKLEDNESS
The quality of being speckled. - MONADIC; MONADICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n. Dr. H. More. - SPECKLE
A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser. - MONADELPHIA
A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family. - SPECKT
A woodpecker. See Speight. - MONADOLOGY
The doctrine or theory of monads. - SPECKLED
Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians , the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. The common American brook trout. See Trout. The rainbow trout. - SCRAPPY
Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray. - SPECKSIONEER
The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers. - SCRAPPILY
In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke. - SCRAP
The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey. - SCRAPPLE
An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal. - PARTICLE
A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. (more info) 1. A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little - SPECKLED-BELLY
The gadwall. - SCRAPE
1. To rub over the surface of with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving - MONADIFORM
Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young. - FLYSPECK
A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot. - SKYSCRAPER
A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building. (more info) A skysail of a triangular form. - LEMONADE
A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened. - KENSPECKLE
Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.