Word Meanings - PLUTEUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.
Related words: (words related to PLUTEUS)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - INCLOSER
One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds. - SWIMMINGNESS
Act or state of swimming; suffusion. "A swimmingness in the eye." Congreve. - 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. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - STIFFTAIL
The ruddy duck. - 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. - STIFFISH
Somewhat stiff. - STIFFNESS
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South. - INCLOSE
Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case, - SWIMMING
1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in, swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion. 2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes. Swimming bell , a nectocalyx. See Illust. under Siphonophora. -- Swimming crab , any one - LARVAL
Of or pertaining to a larva. - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - MICACEO-CALCAREOUS
Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - SEMICALCAREOUS
Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant. - MISBEHAVIOR
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.