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
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• 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.