Word Meanings - OCTOPUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,

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• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• ARMADA
  A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• ARMORY
  fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. 1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory
• ARMILLARY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions
• EIGHTEEN
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• ARMOZEEN; ARMOZINE
  A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.
• ARMORED
  Clad with armor.
• EIGHT
  An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• DEVILFISH
  A huge ray of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus. The gray whale
• ARMAMENTARY
  An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• ARMLET
  1. A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea. Johnson. 2. An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm. 3. Armor for the arm.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• ARMORED CRUISER
  A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first
• ARMADO
  Armada.
• ARMY
  1. A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers. 2. A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army. 3. A
• ARMIGEROUS
  Bearing arms. They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.
• ARMAMENT
  All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification. 3. Any equipment for resistance. (more info) 1. A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole
• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• BABY FARMING
  The business of keeping a baby farm.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• CARMINIC
  Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• DISARM
  1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means
• HARMLESS
  1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt;
• PHARMACY
  pharmacie, Gr. 1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist. 2. A place where medicines
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• HARMONIZATION
  The act of harmonizing.
• FARMERESS
  A woman who farms.
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.