Word Meanings - PECTORALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As connected with the breast.

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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• BREASTHOOK
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.
• BREAST-HIGH
  High as the breast.
• BREASTBAND
  A band for the breast. Specifically: A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
• BREASTFAST
  A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• BREAST
  1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. 2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia,
• BREASTBEAM
  The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
• BREASTROPE
  See BREASTBAND
• BREASTPIN
  A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTING
  The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.
• BREAST-DEEP
  Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• CHIMNEY-BREAST
  The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• BREST; BREAST
  A torus.