Word Meanings - EPISPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
Related words: (words related to EPISPORE)
- OUTER
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump - OUTERLY
1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - CERTAINNESS
Certainty. - OUTERMOST
Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle. - CERTAIN
1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer. - THICKISH
Somewhat thick. - CERTAINLY
Without doubt or question; unquestionably. - SHOUTER
One who shouts. - SOUTER
A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - FLOUTER
One who flouts; a mocker. - PLOUTER
To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling. - TOUTER
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - SOUTERLY
Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - POUTER
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym: - CLOUTERLY
Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips. - ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth. - INCERTAIN
Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne. - SOUTERRAIN
A grotto or cavern under ground. Arbuthnot.