Word Meanings - ILIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• THREEPENNY
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• THREEFOLD
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. Eccl. iv. 12.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.