Word Meanings - PROCELLARIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a family of oceanic birds including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

Related words: (words related to PROCELLARIAN)

• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WEATHER SIGNAL
  Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weather Bureau includes temperature, cold or hot wave, rain or snow, wind direction, storm, and hurricane signals.
• WEATHERPROOF
  Proof against rough weather.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• WEATHER-BITTEN
  Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather. Coleridge.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• OVERWEATHER
  To expose too long to the influence of the weather. Shak.
• AWEATHER
  On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.