Word Meanings - SUPPOSITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter. (more info) L. suppositorius that is placed underneath: cf. F. suppositoire. See

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• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• BUTTERFLY
  A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• BUTTERWORT
  A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• BUTTER
  1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride
• BUTTERBUMP
  The European bittern. Johnson.
• PLACOIDIAN
  One of the placoids.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• PLACITORY
  Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. Clayton.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.