Word Meanings - SHARD-BORNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.

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• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• BEETLE
  1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.
• SCALY
  Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater , the pangolin. (more info) 1. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton. 2. Resembling scales,
• BEETLEHEAD
  The black-bellied plover, or bullhead . See Plover. (more info) 1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.
• SHARDY
  Having, or consisting of, shards.
• SCALY-WINGED
  Scale-winged.
• SHARD-BORNE
  Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.
• BEETLE-BROWED
  Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. Note: The earlier meaning was, "Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows."
• BEETLE BROW
  An overhanging brow.
• BEETLE-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• BORNEOL
  A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European
• SHARD
  A plant; chard. Dryden.
• SHARDED
  Having elytra, as a beetle.
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• WATER BEETLE
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like
• TAPESTRY BEETLE
  A small black dermestoid beetle whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.
• AMBROSIA BEETLE
  A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• FORBORNE
  p. p. of Forbear.
• SUBORNER
  One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
• BILLBEETLE; BILLBUG
  A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
• FIRE BEETLE
  A very brilliantly luminous beetle , one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
• FLEA-BEETLE
  A small beetle of the family Halticidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.