Word Meanings - TAXASPIDEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.

Related words: (words related to TAXASPIDEAN)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• REGULAR
  Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• SCUTELLA
  See SCUTELLUM
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.