Word Meanings - ARTHROSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic , Ar*thros"po*rous , a.

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• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• RESTAGNATE
  To stagnate; to cease to flow. Wiseman.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• BACTERIAL
  Of or pertaining to bacteria.
• RESTAGNANT
  Stagnant; motionless. Boyle.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• OCCURRENT
  1. One who meets; hence, an adversary. Holland. 2. Anything that happens; an occurrence. These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. Sir T. Browne.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• RESTORATORY
  Restorative.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• RESTY
  Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.
• RESTIFORM
  Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• RESTEM
  1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak. 2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.
• OCCUR
  1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. I must occur to one specious objection. Bentley. 3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer;
• BACTERIA
  See BACTERIUM
• RESTRAIN
  restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• PHAEOSPORE
  A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• EPISPORE
  The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• PRESTIGIATOR
  A juggler; prestidigitator. Dr. H. More.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• DIASPORE
  A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.