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Word Meanings - DURA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short form for Dura mater.

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  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • MATERIEL
    That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college,
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • MATERIALNESS
    The state of being material.
  • SHORTCAKE
    An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
  • MATERIARIAN
    See MATERIALIST
  • SHORTLY
    1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
  • MATERIOUS
    See MATERIAL
  • SHORT-JOINTED
    Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
  • SHORT-DATED
    Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
  • MATERNITY
    The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
  • MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
    Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
  • SHORT-WAISTED
    Having a short waist.
  • SHORT
    In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery,
  • SHORTENING
    That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • SHORTSTOP
    The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
  • MATERIA MEDICA
    1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances
  • SHORT-SPOKEN
    Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
  • IMMATERIALIST
    One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
  • IMMATERIAL
    1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
  • DEMATERIALIZE
    To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
  • IMMATERIATE
    Immaterial. Bacon.
  • IMMATERIALLY
    1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.
  • ANIMATER
    One who animates. De Quincey.

 

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