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Word Meanings - TONGUEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • UNITIVE
    Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
  • FLOUNDER
    A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder ; the rough or winter flounder ; the summer flounder,
  • UNITARIANISM
    The doctrines of Unitarians.
  • UNITARIANIZE
    To change or turn to Unitarian views.
  • NATIVE
    1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
  • SOUTHERN
    A Southerner.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • UNIT
    The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat,
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • UNITABLE
    Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • NATIVE STEEL
    A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
  • UNITIVELY
    In a unitive manner. Cudworth.
  • COAST
    1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
  • UNITARIAN
    Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
  • SOUTHERNWOOD
    A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
  • COASTING
    1. A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
  • ELIMINATIVE
    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
  • NOMINATIVELY
    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • REGNATIVE
    Ruling; governing.
  • COORDINATIVE
    Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
  • TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
    Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
  • DENOMINATIVE
    Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
  • GLUTINATIVE
    Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
  • CONGLUTINATIVE
    Conglutinant.
  • JEJUNITY
    The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.
  • TRIUNITY
    The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.
  • MUNITION
    fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. 1. Fortification; stronghold. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. 2. Whatever materials

 

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