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Word Meanings - FEATHERSTITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

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  • PRODUCIBILITY
    The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • STITCH
    A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance. You have gone a good stitch. Bunyan. In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in
  • BRANCHY
    Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
  • PRODUCTIVITY
    The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
  • PRODUCTUS
    An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
  • ZIGZAGGY
    Having sharp turns. Barham.
  • EMBROIDERY
    1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
  • PRODUCTILE
    Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
  • PRODUCER
    A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
  • PRODUCENT
    One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
  • ZIGZAG
    A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3. (more info) 1. Something that has short turns or angles. The fanatics going straight forward and openly, the politicians by the surer mode of zigzag.
  • BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
    Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
    Branchiostegal.
  • BRANCHLET
    A little branch; a twig.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • EPIBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • HYPOBRANCHIAL
    Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
  • PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
    See -ATE (more info) & n.
  • PERENNIBRANCHIATE
    Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
  • TECTIBRANCHIATE
    Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n.
  • SCYPHOBRANCHII
    An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
  • DERMOBRANCHIATE
    Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
  • BACKSTITCH
    A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
  • CIRROBRANCHIATA
    A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

 

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