Word Meanings - BARNACLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. the sessile species , and the stalked or goose barnacles . See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater , the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale , a bark

Additional info about word: BARNACLE

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. the sessile species , and the stalked or goose barnacles . See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater , the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale , a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form. (more info) was popularly supposed to grow from this shellfish; but perh. from LL. bernacula for pernacula, dim. of perna ham, sea mussel; cf. Gr. ham Cf. F. bernacle, barnacle, E. barnacle a goose; and Ir.

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• GOOSERY
  1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• ADHERE
  1. To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. 2. To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• ORANGEISM
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• GOOSEWINGED
  Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
• ORANGEMAN
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• CIRRIPED
  One of the Cirripedia.
• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• ORANGETAWNY
  Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• WAY-GOOSE
  See 2
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
• SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
  The common European sheldrake.
• MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
  A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose
• REFLOAT
  Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
• CARGOOSE
  A species of grebe ; the crested grebe.
• BLEATER
  One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message