Word Meanings - SKULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.

Related words: (words related to SKULL)

• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• KNAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• ENTEROLITH
  An intestinal concretion.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• ENTEROTOMY
  Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• 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
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• REENTERING
  The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• ANENTEROUS
  Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.
• SHOAL
  A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. (more info) to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• MESENTERON
  All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a
• COELENTERA; COELENTERATA
  A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.