Word Meanings - RINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

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• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• GAP
  An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• GAPER
  1. One who gapes. A European fish. See 4th Comber. A large edible clam , of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam. An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
• GAPES; THE GAPES
  A fit of yawning. A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.
• 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.
• SEPARATICAL
  Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SEPARATORY
  Separative. Cheyne.
• COROLLATE; COROLLATED
  Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• SEPARATING
  Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel , a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• MEGAPODE
  Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl under Jungle, and Leipoa.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.