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Word Meanings - BALEEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

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  • TWELVEPENNY
    , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
  • TWELVEMO
    See DUODECIMO
  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • ALONGSIDE
    Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • TWELVE
    One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
  • 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.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • MOUTHFUL
    1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
  • CERTAINTY
    Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
  • 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.
  • MOUTHED
    1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
  • MOUTH
    An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • CERTAINNESS
    Certainty.
  • UPPER
    Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
  • ATTACHABLE
    Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
  • ATTACHE
    One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
  • ALONGSHORE
    Along the shore or coast.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • KALONG
    A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
  • LOUD-MOUTHED
    Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
  • REDMOUTH
    Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • FLAP-MOUTHED
    Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
  • HOT-MOUTHED
    Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
  • FOUL-MOUTHED
    Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.

 

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