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Word Meanings - UNABSORBABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not absorbable; specifically , not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

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  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • CIRCULATORY
    Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases. (more info) 1. Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson. 2. Circulating, or going round. T. Warton.
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • BLOODY-MINDED
    Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • BLOODINESS
    1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
  • CIRCULATORIOUS
    Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.
  • CIRCULATOR
    One who, or that which, circulates.
  • OSMOSIS
    Osmose.
  • BLOODWORT
    A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot , and to an extensive order of plants , the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
  • BLOODSHOT
    Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.
  • BLOODWOOD
    A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the
  • BLOODED
    Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.
  • BLOOD
    Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5. The fleshy nature of man.
  • BLOODLESS
    1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden. 2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude. 3. Without spirit or activity.
  • BLOODHOUND
    A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • UNCAPABLE
    Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
  • INCAPABLE
    Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • REABSORPTION
    The act or process of rearbsorbing.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
  • OVERCAPABLE
    Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.

 

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