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Word Meanings - DOUBLETHREADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.

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  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • PITCHERFUL
    The quantity a pitcher will hold.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • USHERDOM
    The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
  • USTULATE
    Blackened as if burned.
  • PITCHINESS
    Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
  • PITCHFORK
    A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • USURY
    1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
  • USURPANT
    Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • ADJACENTLY
    So as to be adjacent.
  • PITCHWORK
    The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • USQUEBAUGH
    of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
  • USURIOUS
    1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • MENISCUS
    A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
  • ANGUINEOUS
    Snakelike.
  • PROTOGYNOUS
    See PROTEROGYNOUS
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • BUSH
    The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
  • TROUSSEAU
    The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • RIPARIOUS
    Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • DESMOGNATHOUS
    Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • CARNIVOROUS
    Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
  • ANTIBILLOUS
    Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
  • RUSHED
    Abounding or covered with rushes.
  • BICUSPID
    One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
  • BARBAROUS
    slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous

 

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