Word Meanings - PROSIPHON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A minute tube found in the protocon
Related words: (words related to PROSIPHON)
- FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely. - PROTOCONCH
The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods. - FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings. - FOUNDING
The art of smelting and casting metals. - MINUTE
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as, - MINUTEMAN
A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution. - MINUTE-JACK
1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak. - FOUNDERSHAFT
The first shaft sunk. Raymond. - MINUTENESS
The quality of being minute. - FOUNDRY
1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds. - FOUNDATIONLESS
Having no foundation. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - 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. - PROFOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker. - PROFOUNDLY
In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak. - CONFOUNDEDLY
Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith. - REFOUND
1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re - CHEST FOUNDER
A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. - AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used. - REFOUNDER
One who refounds. - DUMFOUNDER
To dumfound; to confound.