Word Meanings - QUEENFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• 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 .
• BRIGHT
  See I
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• KINGFISH
  An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb. The opah. The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero. The queenfish.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• CALLIDITY
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• BELLYBAND
  A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
• CALLIGRAPHY
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• CALIFORNIA JACK
  A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• SILVERY
  1. Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright. All the enameled race, whose silvery wing Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring. Pope. 2. Besprinkled or covered with silver. 3. Having the
• CALLOSAN
  Of the callosum.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• IAMBICALLY
  In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.