Word Meanings - MASTOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• MASTOIDITIS
  Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• NIPPLE
  The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap. 2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. Derham. 3. Any small projection or article in which there
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.