Word Meanings - URODELA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An order of amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - DEVELOPMENT
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - 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. - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - ALLITERATE
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - ALLIGATE
To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - ALLIGNMENT
See ALIGNMENT - 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; - DEVELOPABLE
Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane. - ORDERLY
1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.