Word Meanings - DARTOS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.
Related words: (words related to DARTOS)
- PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - LAYERING
A propagating by layers. Gardner. - TISSUED
Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton. - PECULIARNESS
The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede. - PECULIARLY
In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually. - BENEATH
1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. - PECULIAR
1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. - TISSUE
One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied - SCROTUM
The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod. - LAYER
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached - CONTRACTILE
tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. - DIRECTLY
1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; - PECULIARITY
1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive - WAYLAYER
One who waylays another. - TRACKLAYER
Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - INTERTISSUED
Interwoven. Shak. - UNDIRECTLY
Indirectly. Strype. - PLAYER
1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester; - SLAYER
One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life. - UNDERLAYER
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer. - STAGEPLAYER
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer. - OVERLAYER
One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid. - MISLAYER
One who mislays.