Word Meanings - ROUNDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

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• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• MODIFICATION
  The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• MODIFICATIVE
  That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
• MODIFIABILITY
  Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
• GUIDE
  cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and 1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler. I wish . . . you
• LABIALLY
  In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• PRONUNCIATION
  The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams. (more info) 1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as,
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• OPENLY
  1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show
• LABIALIZATION
  The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.
• MODIFIER
  One who, or that which, modifies. Hume.
• LABIAL
  Furnished with lips; as, a labial organ pipe. Articulated, as a consonant, mainly by the lips, as b, p, m, w. Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo , o , etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide
• OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
  See OPEN
• GUIDEPOST
  A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• INFRALABIAL
  Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
• TWOPENNY
  Of the value of twopence.
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• COPENHAGEN
  A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
• REMODIFICATION
  The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
• REOPEN
  To open again.
• SCOLOPENDRA
  A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. 2. A sea fish. Spenser.
• SLOPENESS
  State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.