Word Meanings - OCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the eye; optic. (more info) 1. Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

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• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• SOUTHWEST
  Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CHRISTIAN
  1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• CHRISTEN
  1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time.
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• CHRISTIANLY
  Christianlike. Longfellow.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
  Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
• SCIOPTIC
  Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned,
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.