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Word Meanings - DARTOS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

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  • 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.

 

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