Word Meanings - OCULARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines. Holland.

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• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• OPTICIAN
  1. One skilled in optics. A. Smith. 2. One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
• OPTIC; OPTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.
• OPTIC
  1. The organ of sight; an eye. The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen. Pope. 2. An eyeglass. Herbert.
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• OCULARLY
  By the eye, or by actual sight.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• OCULARY
  Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines. Holland.
• OPTICS
  That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
• OCULAR
  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.
• OPTICALLY
  By optics or sight; with reference to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive , terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce
• 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,
• 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.
• SYNOPTIC
  One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.
• EXTRA-OCULAR
  Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.
• OMPHALOPTER; OMPHALOPTIC
  An optical glass that is convex on both sides. Hutton.
• MULTILOCULAR
  Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.
• OCTOLOCULAR
  Having eight cells for seeds.
• INOCULAR
  Inserted in the corner of the eye; -- said of the antenn
• BINOCULAR
  1. Having two eyes. "Most animals are binocular." Derham. 2. Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision. 3. Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope. Brewster.
• INFRAOCULAR
  Situated below the eyes, as the antenna of certain insects.
• MULTOCULAR
  Having many eyes, or more than two.
• SCIOPTICS
  The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
• RADIOPTICON
  See ABOVE
• BINOCULARLY
  In a binocular manner.