Word Meanings - KNEEBRUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

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• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• BRUSHWOOD
  1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• BRUSHITE
  A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• PLURALIZER
  A pluralist.
• PLURALIZE
  1. To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form. 2. To multiply; to make manifold.
• BRUSHER
  One who, or that which, brushes.
• PLURALITY
  See PLURALITY (more info) 1. The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
• BRUSH TURKEY
  A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. Note: The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap
• BRUSHING
  1. Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine. 2. Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• PLURALIZATION
  The act of pluralizing. H. Spencer.
• BRUSHY
  Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.
• OTHERWISE
  1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
• OTHERWAYS
  See TYNDALE
• PLURALLY
  In a plural manner or sense.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• HAIRBRUSH
  A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.