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Word Meanings - RIM-FIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • USHERDOM
    The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
  • USTULATE
    Blackened as if burned.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • USURY
    1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
  • USURPANT
    Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • USQUEBAUGH
    of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See 1. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott. 2. A liquor
  • USURIOUS
    1. Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person. 2. Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • PERCUSSION
    The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body;
  • USURER
    1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at
  • USUFRUCTUARY
    A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. Wharton.
  • USURPATURE
    Usurpation. "Beneath man's usurpature." R. Browning.
  • CENTERING
    See 6
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • USUCAPTION
    The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law. (more info) use; usu + capere to take: cf. usucapio
  • USURPATORY
    Marked by usurpation; usurping.
  • CENTERBIT; CENTREBIT
    An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
  • MENISCUS
    A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
  • ANGUINEOUS
    Snakelike.
  • PROTOGYNOUS
    See PROTEROGYNOUS
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • RIPARIOUS
    Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • BUSH
    The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
  • TROUSSEAU
    The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
  • POLYPHYLLOUS
    Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • DESMOGNATHOUS
    Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
  • CARNIVOROUS
    Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
  • BARBAROUS
    slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
  • RUSHED
    Abounding or covered with rushes.
  • ANTIBILLOUS
    Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
  • BICUSPID
    One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
    Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

 

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