Word Meanings - TRANSPIERCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

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• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• PENETRATE
  akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
• RATTLE-HEADED
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• RATTLEBOX
  1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• PRATTLE
  To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
• BERATTLE
  To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.