Word Meanings - INVOLUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

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• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• TRACHEA
  The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• TRACHELORRHAPHY
  The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
• STRUVITE
  A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• REGISTRANT
  One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.