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Word Meanings - PENCEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; - - called also pennoncel. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • LANCEOLATE; LANCEOLATED
    Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
  • LANCE
    A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell. (more info) 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a
  • BORNE
    Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
  • PENNONCEL; PENNONCELLE
    See PENCEL
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • LANCEOLAR
    Lanceolate.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • NARROW-MINDED
    Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • LANCER
    1. One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. Wilhelm. 2. A lancet. 3. pl.
  • CALLOSE
    Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
  • CALLIDITY
    Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
  • LANCEGAY; LANCEGAYE
    A kind of spear anciently used. Its use was prohibited by a statute of Richard II. Nares. In his hand a launcegay, A long sword by his side. Chaucer. (more info) same source as E. assagai, under the influence of F. lance lance. See
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • NARROWER
    One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
  • ENTERPARLANCE
    Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
  • DEMILANCE
    A light lance; a short spear; a half pike; also, a demilancer.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • 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.
  • VALANCE
    p. pr. of avaler to go down, let down, descent ; but 1. Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor. Valance of Venice gold in needlework. Shak. 2. The drooping
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • ACRONYCALLY
    In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
  • PHYSIOLOGICALLY
    In a physiological manner.
  • ELANCE
    To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.
  • OBLANCEOLATE
    Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

 

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