Word Meanings - PSEUDO-CONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
Related words: (words related to PSEUDO-CONE)
- TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - 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, - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies. - COMPOUNDER
A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a - COMPOUNDABLE
That may be compounded. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - COMPOUND CONTROL
A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - 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. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously. - HYPOCRYSTALLINE
Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass. - MICROCRYSTALLINE
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.