Word Meanings - TROCHILIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• TROCHILIC
  OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• 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.
• ROUNDHEADED
  Having a round head or top.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• ROUNDHEAD
  A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.
• 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;
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.