Word Meanings - HUMERUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

Related words: (words related to HUMERUS)

• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• HUMERUS
  The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• BRACHIUM
  The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• ANTIBRACHIUM
  That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
• SCUPPER
  An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. Scupper hose , a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of