Word Meanings - PUPILLARITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. (more info) Law)

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• BIRTHMARK
  Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth. Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.
• FOURTEEN
  1. The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects. 2. A symbol representing fourteen, as 14 or xiv.
• PUBERTY
  The period when a plant first bears flowers. (more info) 1. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
• BIRTHING
  Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• BIRTHRIGHT
  Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• BIRTHWORT
  A genus of herbs and shrubs , reputed to have medicinal properties.
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• BIRTHNIGHT
  The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years. The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born. Milton.
• BIRTHLESS
  Of mean extraction. Sir W. Scott.
• BIRTHROOT
  An herbaceous plant , and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
• PERIODICALNESS
  Periodicity.
• PERIODOSCOPE
  A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• IMPUBERTY
  The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.
• NIAGARA PERIOD
  A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of