Word Meanings - NYMPHALES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.

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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.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• 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
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• FOOTROPE
  The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse. That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.
• FOOTBATH
  A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
• 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.
• FOOTBOARD
  1. A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive. The foot-rest of a coachman's box. 2. A board forming the foot of a bedstead. 3. A treadle.
• FOOTHALT
  A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• FOOTPACE
  1. A walking pace or step. 2. A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase. Shipley.
• BRUSH
  A tuft of hair on the mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush. (more info) F. brosse brush, LL. brustia, bruscia, fr. OHG. brusta,
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• 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.
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• 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.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• 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.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.