Word Meanings - PIERCED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Penetrated; entered; perforated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PIERCED)

• Perforate
• Bored
• pierced
• drilled

Related words: (words related to PIERCED)

• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• BOREAL
  Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson.
• BORDAGE
  The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• BORON
  A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• BORDAR
  A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
• BORIDE
  A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
• BORWE
  Pledge; borrow. Chaucer.
• BORRACHO
  See BORACHIO
• BORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron. Boric acid, a white crystalline substance B 3, easily obtained from its salts, and occurring in solution in the hot lagoons of Tuscany.
• BORDLODE
  The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house. Bailey. Mozley & W.
• BOROUGH
  burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. Bury, v. t., and
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• DRILL PRESS
  A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
• BOROUGHHEAD
  See HEADBOROUGH
• BORNITE
  A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore , in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.
• BOROUGHMONGERING; BOROUGHMONGERY
  The practices of a boroughmonger.
• BORDMAN
  A bordar; a tenant in bordage.
• BORD
  The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures. (more info) 1. A board; a table. Chaucer.
• CORROBOREE
  1. A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. 2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. 3. A
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• VOLBORTHITE
  A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SEBORRHEA
  A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• HELLEBORIN
  A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• ABORTED
  Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen. (more info) 1. Brought forth
• HOBORNOB
  See HOBNOB
• SIGH-BORN
  Sorrowful; mournful. "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• UNLABORED
  1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
• ABORTIFACIENT
  Producing miscarriage. -- n.