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Word Meanings - ARISTOTYPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

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  • USHERDOM
    The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
  • COATLESS
    Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
  • USTULATE
    Blackened as if burned.
  • SILVERFIN
    A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
  • PRINTLESS
    Making no imprint. Milton.
  • SILVERIZE
    To cover with silver.
  • COATING
    1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. 2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • GELATINATION
    The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
  • GELATINIZATION
    See GELATINATION
  • USURY
    1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
  • USURPANT
    Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
  • SILVER STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
  • SILVER
    A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite,
  • USQUEBAUGH
    of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
  • COATI
    A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose. Note: The red coati , called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati is found in Surinam and Brazil.
  • USURIOUS
    1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • PRINTA-BLE
    Worthy to be published.
  • USURER
    1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
  • ANGUINEOUS
    Snakelike.
  • PROTOGYNOUS
    See PROTEROGYNOUS
  • MENISCUS
    A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
  • RIPARIOUS
    Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • BUSH
    The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • TROUSSEAU
    The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • DESMOGNATHOUS
    Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
  • BICUSPID
    One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
  • CARNIVOROUS
    Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
  • RUSHED
    Abounding or covered with rushes.
  • BARBAROUS
    slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
  • ANTIBILLOUS
    Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • RAMUSCULE
    A small ramus, or branch.

 

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