Word Meanings - HUCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The hip; the haunch. 2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip. Huckle bone. The hip bone; the innominate bone. A small bone of the ankle; astragalus. Udall.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• ANKLED
  Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl.
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• ANKLE
  The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus. (more info) ökkla, ökli, Dan. and Sw. ankel, D. enklaauw, enkel, G. enkel, and perh. OHG. encha, ancha thigh, shin: cf. Skr. anga limb,
• HAUNCH
  1. The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part. 2. Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison. Haunch bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate. -- Haunches of an
• HUCKLE
  1. The hip; the haunch. 2. A bunch or part projecting like the hip. Huckle bone. The hip bone; the innominate bone. A small bone of the ankle; astragalus. Udall.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• HUCKLE-BACKED
  Round-shoulded.
• BUNCHY
  Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
• 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
• BUNCHBERRY
  The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• BUNCH
  A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. (more info) 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster,
• 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
• HAUNCHED
  Having haunches.
• INNOMINATE
  A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. Innominate bone , the great bone which makes a lateral half
• PROJECTILE
  1. Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. 2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.
• 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.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CRANKLE
  To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
• CHUCKLEHEAD
  A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. Knowles.
• RANKLE
  Etym: 1. To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke. 2. To