Word Meanings - PESTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pistillum, pistillus, a pounder, pestle, fr. pisere, pinsere, to 1. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. 2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. Chapman. 3. The leg and leg bone of

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pistillum, pistillus, a pounder, pestle, fr. pisere, pinsere, to 1. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar. 2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. Chapman. 3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.

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  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
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• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• POUND
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• STAFFIER
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• CALLOT
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• POUNDER
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• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
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• BAILIFF
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• IMPLEMENT
  That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.
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  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• MAKE AND BREAK
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• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
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• LAWBREAKER
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• SPINDLE-SHAPED
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• UNIVOCALLY
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• TEN-POUNDER
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• PARABOLICALLY
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• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
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