Word Meanings - DACTYLIOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That branch of archæology which has to do with gem engraving. That branch of archæology which has to do with finger rings.

Related words: (words related to DACTYLIOLOGY)

• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• 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.
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• BRANCHY
  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
• FINGERED
  Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. (more info) 1. Having fingers.
• 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.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• FINGERLING
  A young salmon. See Parr.
• RINGSTRAKED
  Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
• FINGERING
  1. The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew. 2. The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in
• BRANCH
  1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.
• BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
  Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
  Branchiostegal.
• BRANCHLET
  A little branch; a twig.
• BRANCHIOSTEGE
  The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• OPHTHALMOLOGY
  The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• SELENOLOGY
  That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. -- Sel`e*no*log"i*cal, a.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• POENOLOGY
  See PENOLOGY
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• HYGIOLOGY
  A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
• AITIOLOGY
  See ÆTIOLOGY
• ICONOLOGY
  The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• HISTIOLOGY
  See HISTOLOGY
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• HEXICOLOGY
  The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.