Word Meanings - BUTTERIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.
Related words: (words related to BUTTERIS)
- OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera. - PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - PARENTHESIS
One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas - PARADISIC
Paradisiacal. Broome. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - PAR
See PARR - PARROCK
A croft, or small field; a paddock. - PAROSTOSIS
Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum. - PARTHIAN
Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n. - PARADOXURE
Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang. - PARUMBILICAL
Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen. - PARDON
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. - PARACROSTIC
A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C. - PARIETES
The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium. - PARABOLE
Similitude; comparison. - PARGETER
A plasterer. Johnson. - PARANTHRACENE
An inert isomeric modification of anthracene. - PARIETINE
A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. Burton. - PARENTATION
Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter. - DESPARPLE
To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville. - RIPARIOUS
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian. - ENTERPARLANCE
Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - PURPURIPAROUS
Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - CHANDLER
of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by - SPAR-HUNG
Hung with spar, as a cave. - SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - OUTPARAMOUR
To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.