Word Meanings - PARADOXURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
Related words: (words related to PARADOXURE)
- 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. - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ASIATIC
Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - 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, - 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 - ALLIGATOR WRENCH
A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. - ASIATICISM
Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics. - 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; - VIVERRINE
Of or pertaining to the Viverridæ, or Civet family. - ALLIUM
A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. - LUWACK
See PARADOXURE - 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 - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - 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. - CRYSTALLIZE
To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form. - HALLIDOME
See HALIDOM - BALLISTA
An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.