Word Meanings - CHAPPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

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• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• GAPER
  1. One who gapes. A European fish. See 4th Comber. A large edible clam , of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam. An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
• GAPES; THE GAPES
  A fit of yawning. A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.
• CLEFT
  from Cleave.
• CLEFT-FOOTED
  Having a cloven foot.
• GAPINGSTOCK
  One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.
• GAPEWORM
  The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• GAPE
  gapen to gape, G. gaffen, Icel. & Sw. gapa, Dan. gabe; cf. Skr. jabh 1. To open the mouth wide; as: Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. Dryden. Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes,
• GAP
  An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that
• CHAPS
  The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.
• GAP-TOOTHED
  Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.
• GAPESING
  Act of gazing about; sightseeing.
• MEGAPODE
  Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl under Jungle, and Leipoa.
• TWO-CLEFT
  Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
• SAGAPENUM
  A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.
• AGAPE
  Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• UNDERCHAPS
  The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.
• AIR GAP
  An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.
• ZYGAPOPHYSIS
  One of the articular processes of a vertebra, of which there are usually four, two anterior and two posterior. See under Vertebra. -- Zyg`ap*o*phys"i*al, a.
• STOP-GAP
  That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient. Moral prejudices are the stop-gaps of virtue. Hare.
• MEGAPHYTON
  An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.
• MEGAPOLIS
  A metropolis. Sir T. Herbert.
• WIDEGAP
  The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.