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Word Meanings - TOPSY-TURVY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy. (more info) probably for top so turvy; that is, the top as turvy, as it were turvy; where turvy probably means, overturned, fr. AS. torfian to

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  • WHEREIN
    1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
  • INVERTASE
    An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
  • WHEREVER
    At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
  • INVERTEBRATE
    Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
  • INVERTEBRATA
    A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
  • OVERTURN
    1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.
  • INVERTIN
    An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
  • WHERETO
    1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
  • INVERTEDLY
    In an inverted order. Derham.
  • WHEREAS
    1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
  • INVERTEBRATED
    Having no backbone; invertebrate.
  • CARRIAGEABLE
    Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
  • WHERE'ER
    Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
  • WHEREINTO
    1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
  • WHERESOE'ER
    Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
  • WHERETHROUGH
    Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
  • WHERESO
    Wheresoever.
  • CARRIAGE
    carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
  • UPSIDE
    The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. Sir W. Scott. T. Hughes. confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.
  • DOWNWARD
    1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source;
  • WHER; WHERE
    Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
  • ACHROMATOPSY
    Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • RECARRIAGE
    Act of carrying back.
  • UNPROBABLY
    Improbably.
  • UPSYTURVY
    Upside down; topsy-turvy. Robert Greene.
  • SELF-IMPOSTURE
    Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

 

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