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