Word Meanings - OVATE-ROTUNDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• OVATED
  Ovate.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• OVATE-ACUMINATE
  Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
• OVATE-OBLONG
  Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• ROUNDLY
  1. In a round form or manner. 2. Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. He affirms everything roundly. Addison. 3. Briskly; with speed. locke. Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward. Sir W. Scott. 4. Completely; vigorously; in earnest. Shak.
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• OVATE-ROTUNDATE
  Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.
• OVATE-CYLINDRACEOUS
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• OBOVATE
  Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INNOVATE
  1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's
• ENSPHERE
  1. To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman. 2. To form into a sphere.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• ATMOSPHERE
  The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed
• PLANISPHERE
  The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting
• UNDERSPHERE
  1. A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite. 2. An inferior sphere, or field of action.