Word Meanings - HYMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• VAGINATE; VAGINATED
  Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• VAGINA
  The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca. (more info) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein. Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice
• VAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• VAGINANT
  Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf , a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• VAGINATI
  A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• VESICOVAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
• EVAGINATION
  The act of unsheathing.
• SUPRAVAGINAL
  Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
• EVAGINATE
  Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• INVAGINATE; INVAGINATED
  Sheathed. Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.