Word Meanings - RACHIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spine; the vertebral column.

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• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINED
  Furnished with spines; spiny.
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• SPINE-FINNED
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• SPINETED
  Slit; cleft.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• SPINELESS
  Having no spine.
• COLUMNIATION
  The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
• COLUMNED
  Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
• SPINEBACK
  A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
• SPINESCENCE
  The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
• SPINEBILL
  Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
• VERTEBRALLY
  At or within a vertebra or vertebræ; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
• COLUMNATED
  Having columns; as, columnated temples.
• COLUMNAR
  Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium , epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure , a structure
• SPINE
  A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn. A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal. One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish. (more info) cf. OF. espine, F. épine. Cf. Spike, Spinet a musical instrument,
• SPINETAIL
  Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chætura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines. Any one of several species of South American and Central American clamatorial birds
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• SEMICOLUMN
  A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
• INTERVERTEBRAL
  Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.
• INTERCOLUMNIATION
  The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt. Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek,
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.
• PREVERTEBRAL
  Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.