Word Meanings - TRYGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

Related words: (words related to TRYGON)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• AGROSTOLOGIST
  One skilled in agrostology.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.