Word Meanings - JUNGERMANNIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.

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• 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 .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• CALL
  1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed
• CIRCUMSCRIBABLE
  Capable of being circumscribed.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CIRCUMSCRIBE
  To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• CALLIDITY
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CALLIGRAPHY
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• COMPRISAL
  The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• IAMBICALLY
  In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification