Word Meanings - TUBULURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.
Related words: (words related to TUBULURE)
- OPENNESS
The quality or state of being open. - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - OPEN SEA
A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - BOTTLE
bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle - TUBULARIAN
Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain - RETORTIVE
Containing retort. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - SHORTLY
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in - BOTTLED
1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle. 2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak. - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - OPEN
1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures - OPEN-MOUTHED
Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange. - SHORT-DATED
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys. - TUBULARIAE
See TUBULARIDA - RETORTION
Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton. - SHORT-WAISTED
Having a short waist. - TUBULATION
The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort. - PROPENE
See PROPYLENE - PROPENSE
Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n. - SCOLOPENDRINE
Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra. - INTERTUBULAR
Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance. - TWOPENNY
Of the value of twopence. - PROPENSION
The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak. - COPENHAGEN
A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.