Word Meanings - OCTONOCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having eight eyes. Derham.

Related words: (words related to OCTONOCULAR)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• EIGHTY
  1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• EIGHT
  An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
• EIGHTETETHE
  Eighteenth.
• EIGHTLING
  A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• EIGHTEENMO
  See OCTODECIMO
• EIGHTH
  1. Next in order after the seventh. 2. Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note , the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• EIGHTEEN
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.