Word Meanings - PERPENDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

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• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• ACTUARIAL
  Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• PERPENT STONE
  See PERPENDER
• ACTINOPHOROUS
  Having straight projecting spines.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• CALL
  1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.