Word Meanings - SPINNERULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SPINNERULE
  One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
• SPINNEY
  See HUGHES
• SPINNER
  A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• NUMEROUS
  1. Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. Milton. 2. Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical. Such prompt
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SPINNERET
  One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line
• SPINNY
  A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley. (more info) espanoi, F. épinaie, from L. spinetum a thicket of thorns, fr. spina
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SPINNAKER
  A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
• SPINNING
  from Spin. Spinning gland , one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• OVERNUMEROUS
  Excessively numerous; too many.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.