Word Meanings - SENTINEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path.

Additional info about word: SENTINEL

A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path. L. semita; and OF. sentine, 1. One who watches or guards; specifically , a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay. 2. Watch; guard. "That princes do keep due sentinel." Bacon.

Related words: (words related to SENTINEL)

• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• SENTINEL
  A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• SENTEUR
  Scent. Holland.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.