Word Meanings - SPINE-TAILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
Related words: (words related to SPINE-TAILED)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - ENDENIZATION
The act of naturalizing. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - ENDOGENY
Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - ENDENIZE
To endenizen. - SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - SPINEL; SPINELLE
A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also - ENDOTHECIUM
The inner lining of an another cell. - SPINED
Furnished with spines; spiny. - ENDOSCOPE
An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. - ENDOPLASM
The protoplasm in the interior of a cell. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - SPINEL
Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight. - TAILBLOCK
A block with a tail. See Tail, 9. - ENDOCHROME
The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color. - TAILRACE
The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6. - ENDALL; END-ALL
Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak. - ENDOSTYLE
A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. - ENDURANT
Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood. - AMENDFUL
Much improving. - COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - OFFENDANT
An offender. Holland. - GENDER
A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living - ACCENDIBILITY
Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. - NAKER
See NACRE - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - STIPEND
Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually. - SEA LAVENDER
See MARSH - DECRESCENDO
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign. - SHENDFUL
Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan. - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - FACIEND
The multiplicand. See Facient, - RATTLESNAKE
Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common - SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - DENDRIFORM
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub. - FRIENDED
1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.