Word Meanings - TAXIDERMIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.

Related words: (words related to TAXIDERMIC)

• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• PRESERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• PREPARABLE
  Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.
• PREPARATION
  The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
• PRESERVATORY
  Preservative. Bp. Hall.
• PRESERVE
  1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some
• PREPARATORY
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• PREPARATOR
  One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.
• PREPARED
  Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
• PREPARATIVE
  Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.
• PREPARE
  1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• GALLIGASKINS
  Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense. (more info) Grecian, a name which seems to have been given in Venice, and to have
• NONPREPARATION
  Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
• SELF-PRESERVATION
  The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.
• GALLYGASKINS
  See GALLIGASKINS
• LIFE-PRESERVER
  An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.
• GASKINS
  1. Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins. Shak. 2. Packing of hemp. Simmonds. 3. A horse's thighs. Wright.