Word Meanings - SHIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fish plate for rails. Knight. Shin bone , the tibia. -- Shin leaf , a perennial ericaceous herb with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers. (more info) scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben.

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A fish plate for rails. Knight. Shin bone , the tibia. -- Shin leaf , a perennial ericaceous herb with a cluster of radical leaves and a raceme of greenish white flowers. (more info) scina, G. schiene, schienbein, Dan. skinnebeen, Sw. skenben. Cf. 1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. "On his shin." Chaucer.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• WHITEBILL
  The American coot.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• DISCINA
  A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• FOOTPLATE
  See