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Word Meanings - PAPILLULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • PAPILLARY
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • 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.
  • CENTERING
    See 6
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
    An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
  • MINUTELY
    In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
  • 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.
  • PAPILLAR
    See PAPILLOSE
  • CENTERBOARD; CENTREBOARD
    A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel
  • PAPILLATE
    To cover with papillæ; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillæ.
  • 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
  • PAPILLA
    Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.
  • DEPRESSION
    The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
  • CENTERPIECE; CENTREPIECE
    An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
  • CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
    To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
  • SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
    Centering in one's self.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • COMMINUTE
    To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
  • DRAWSHAVE
    See KNIFE
  • SELF-CENTERED; SELF-CENTRED
    Centered in itself, or in one's self. There hangs the ball of earth and water mixt, Self-centered and unmoved. Dryden.
  • MISBEHAVIOR
    Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

 

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