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Word Meanings - STAKTOMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • DROPSICAL
    1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • FINDER
    One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
  • TAPERED
    Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. T. Warton.
  • DROPSICALNESS
    State of being dropsical.
  • GLASSEN
    Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • GLASSINESS
    The quality of being glassy.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • SPYGLASS
    A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to

 

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