Word Meanings - PISCICAPTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capture of fishes, as by angling. W. H. Russell.
Related words: (words related to PISCICAPTURE)
- ANGLICIZE
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies. - ANGLE
A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles - ANGLO-CATHOLIC
Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England. - ANGLICIZATION
The act of anglicizing, or making English in character. - ANGLICANISM
1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. 2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. 3. Attachment to England or English - ANGLEWISE
In an angular manner; angularly. - ANGLING
The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton. - ANGLED
Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall. - ANGLO-SAXON
The Teutonic people of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. - ANGLO-SAXONISM
1. A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold. 2. The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense. - ANGLOPHOBIA
Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n. - ANGLIC
Anglian. - ANGLOMANIAC
One affected with Anglomania. - ANGLESITE
A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. - ANGLO-SAXONDOM
The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race. - ANGLICITY
The state or quality of being English. - ANGLOMANIA
A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc. - ANGLICIFY
To anglicize. - ANGLO-CATHOLICISM
The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant. - ANGLICAN
1. English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc. 2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held - SPANGLY
Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light. - UNTANGLE
To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior. - BRANGLE
A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused - QUINQUEANGLED
Having five angles; quinquangular. - TRIANGLE
A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A - WIDE-ANGLE
Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing - GANGLIFORM; GANGLIOFORM
Having the form of a ganglion. - FANGLE
Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament. - NEWFANGLENESS
Newfangledness. Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson . - RECAPTURE
1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor. 2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken. - ACUTE-ANGLED
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. - GANGLIAC; GANGLIAL
Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic. - STRANGLE HOLD
In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. - NEWFANGLED
1. Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Disposed to change; inclined to novelties; given to new theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. . "Newfangled men." Latimer. - DANGLE
To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately; - EQUIANGLED
Equiangular. Boyle. - HETEROGANGLIATE
Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.