Word Meanings - GALLINAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - DOMESTICATE
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - ALLITERATE
To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. - COMMONWEALTH
Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state; - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.