Word Meanings - MEMBRANOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Membranaceous. Membranous croup , true croup. See Croup. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.

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• LINGET
  An ingot.
• LINGISM
  A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
• LINNE
  Flax. See Linen.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• CROUPOUS
  Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air
• LINAGE
  See HOLLAND
• LINGUAL
  Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
• LINNAEA BOREALIS
  The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• LINCHI
  An esculent swallow.
• 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.
• LINKS
  A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
• LINER
  A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
• LINOLEIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically , designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• LINGUATULIDA
  See LINGUATULINA
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• DUCKLING
  A young or little duck. Gay.
• TOOLING
  Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
• MEDULLIN
  A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• TOWELING
  Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• TRICLINATE
  Triclinic.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• DELINEABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.
• ETHYLIN
  Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.