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Word Meanings - TRUNDLEHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion. 2. The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • LOWERMOST
    Lowest.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FORME
    First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • WHEELBIRD
    The European goatsucker.
  • FORMEDON
    A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
  • LOWERY
    Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
  • FORMAT
    The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
  • FORMYL
    A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
  • FORMALIZE
    1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • FORMAL
    1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
  • FORMULARIZATION
    The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley.
  • WHEELWRIGHT
    A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
  • WHEELED
    Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • CATHERINE WHEEL
    See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • OPINIONATOR
    An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.

 

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