Word Meanings - LAPPACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.
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- FORK
1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - FORKTAIL
One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth. - FORKLESS
Having no fork. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - COVERCHIEF
A covering for the head. Chaucer. - COVERTLY
Secretly; in private; insidiously. - COVER
operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - COVERING
Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering - COVERAGE
The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance. - COVER-SHAME
Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden. - FORKY
Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope. - FORKINESS
The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. - DUNGFORK
A fork for tossing dung. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery. - BIFORKED
Bifurcate. - DISCOVERABLE
Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. - DISCOVERY
1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next - IRRECOVERABLE
Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless. - DISCOVERER
1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak. - RECOVERANCE
Recovery.