Word Meanings - OSSEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - OSSIFIC
Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - FORME
See PATTé - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - FORMYL
A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3. - FORMALIZE
1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal. - FORMAL
1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; - COMPOSITE
Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - FLOSSIFICATION
A flowering; florification. Craig. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - UNCAPABLE
Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume.