Word Meanings - GLANDULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small gland or secreting vessel.

Related words: (words related to GLANDULE)

• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• GLANDERED
  Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu
• GLANDULOUS
  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SECRETORY
  Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
• SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
  The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
• GLANDULIFEROUS
  Bearing glandules.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND
  the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. (more info) 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.
• BIGLANDULAR
  Having two glands, as a plant.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according