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Word Meanings - GLASS-CRAB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The larval state of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • 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.
  • THINNESS
    The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
  • ALLITERAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • GENERABILITY
    Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
  • GENERALIZED
    Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
  • GENERALIZABLE
    Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
  • GENERA
    See GENUS
  • ALLITERATOR
    One who alliterates.
  • GENERANT
    Generative; producing; esp. ,
  • ALLIED
    United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
  • GENERALTY
    Generality. Sir M. Hale.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • ALLICE; ALLIS
    The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
  • ALLITERATE
    To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.
  • 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
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • ALLIGATE
    To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
  • 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.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • MAJOR GENERAL
    . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
  • KAKARALLI
    A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • 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.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • UNREGENERACY
    The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • IMPALLID
    To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
    See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
    The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
  • BALLISTER
    A crossbow.

 

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