Word Meanings - CHORION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The outer membrane of seeds of plants. (more info) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. The true skin, or cutis.

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• CUTIS
  See DERMIS
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• 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.
• INVESTITURE
  Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• 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.
• INVEST
  To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town. 7. To lay out in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock. (more info) 1. To
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• SIMILARLY
  In a similar manner.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• INVESTMENT
  The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall. 4. The laying out of money in the
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• 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.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• 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.
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.