Word Meanings - VIRGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.

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• BRIGHT
  See I
• LIBRATORY
  Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• LIBRATION
  A real or apparent libratory motion, like that of a balance before coming to rest. Libration of the moon, any one of those small periodical changes in the position of the moon's surface relatively to the earth, in consequence of which
• SPICATE; SPICATED
  Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• OCCUPY
  1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13. 2. To follow business; to traffic.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LIBRA
  The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus libra in almanacs, etc. A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.
• LIBRATE
  To poise; to balance.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• ZODIACAL
  Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets. Zodiacal light, a luminous tract of the sky, of an elongated, triangular figure, lying near the ecliptic, its base being on the horizon, and its apex at varying
• LIBRAL
  Of a pound weight. Johnson.
• SPICA
  A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
• CONSTELLATION
  1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• HARUSPICATION
  See TYLOR
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• LAMELLIBRANCH
  One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• EQUILIBRATE
  To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise. H. Spenser.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• SUBCONSTELLATION
  A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.
• PELLIBRANCHIATA
  A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.
• TUBULIBRANCHIAN
  One of the Tubulibranchiata.