Word Meanings - MITRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

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• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• MITER; MITRE
  A sort of base money or coin. Miter box , an apparatus for guiding a handsaw at the proper angle in making a miter joint; esp., a wooden or metal trough with vertical kerfs in its upright sides, for guides. -- Miter dovetail , a kind of dovetail
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• AURICLE
  An angular or ear-shaped lobe. 3. An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield. (more info) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head. The chamber, or one of the two
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• MITERWORT
  Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap. False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• HEART'S-EASE
  A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
• HEARTYHALE
  Good for the heart.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• VALVELET
  A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
• HEARTLESS
  1. Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster. 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing. 3. Destitute of
• HEARTSEED
  A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
  Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• PSEUDO-HEART
  Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.