Word Meanings - WAGON-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.
Related words: (words related to WAGON-HEADED)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - INVERTASE
An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides. - SECTIONALITY
The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - INVERTEBRATE
Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n. - INVERTEBRATA
A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata. - WAGON
The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - INVERTIN
An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SECTIONALIZE
To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay . - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - INVERTEDLY
In an inverted order. Derham. - SECTIONALISM
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. - INVERTEBRATED
Having no backbone; invertebrate. - SECTIONIZE
To form into sections. - 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. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.