Word Meanings - PSEUDOSCORPIONES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

Related words: (words related to PSEUDOSCORPIONES)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• SCORPION
  Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting. Note: Scorpions have a flattened body, and a long, slender post- abdomen formed of six
• 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 .
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• AGROSTOLOGIST
  One skilled in agrostology.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.