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Word Meanings - OCULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the eye; optic. (more info) 1. Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

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  • SEEMINGNESS
    Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
    See ABOVE
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • CHRISTIAN
    1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • RECEIVE
    To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • CHRISTEN
    1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time.
  • SEERSUCKER
    A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • SIGHTLY
    1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • CHRISTIANLY
    Christianlike. Longfellow.
  • PEEP SIGHT
    An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
  • MESEEMS
    It seems to me.
  • WORMSEED
    Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
  • UNSEEMLY
    Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
  • SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
    Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • SCIOPTIC
    Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball. Scioptic ball , the lens of a camera obscura mounted in a wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned,
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
    Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
  • LOPSEED
    A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
  • SELF-REPROOF
    The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
  • GAPESEED
    Any strange sight. Wright.

 

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