Word Meanings - CORACOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals. (more info) 1. Shaped like a crow's beak.
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- SHOULDER
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the - SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - SCAPULARY
See A - SHOULDERED
Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer. - REDUCTIVE
Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. - 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. - REDUCTIVELY
By reduction; by consequence. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - 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. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - REDUCT
To reduce. W. Warde. - SHAPOO
The oörial. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - REDUCING
a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically - PRESCAPULA
The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - HUMP-SHOULDERED
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne. - SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle. - INFRASCAPULAR
Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular. - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process. - SEA GIRDLES
A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - IRREDUCIBLE
Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.