Word Meanings - BLINDFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

Related words: (words related to BLINDFISH)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• MAMMOTH
  An extinct, hairy, maned elephant , of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man. Note: Several specimens have been found in Siberia
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• MAMMOTHREPT
  A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• CAVESSON; CAVEZON
  A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. White.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.