Word Meanings - OSTRACEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

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• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• ALLICE; ALLIS
  The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
• ALLIGATION
  A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain
• ALLITERATE
  To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
• ALLIGATE
  To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
• ALLIGNMENT
  See ALIGNMENT
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• ALLIGATOR WRENCH
  A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
• ALLIANCE
  1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances;
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• ALLIUM
  A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
• BIVALVE
  A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles
• ALLISION
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.
• ALLIANT
  An ally; a confederate. Sir H. Wotton.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• 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.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HALLIDOME
  See HALIDOM
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• BALLISTA
  An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.