Word Meanings - SEMI-SAXON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• SAXONY YARN
  A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• LANGUAGE
  To communicate by language; to express in language. Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• SAXONITE
  See MOUNTAIN
• SAXONISM
  An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language. T. Warton.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• SEMI-SAXON
  Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-
• NIAGARA PERIOD
  A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of