Word Meanings - SCUTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.

Related words: (words related to SCUTAL)

• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SCUTAL
  Of or pertaining to a shield. A good example of these scutal monstrosities. Cussans.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• SHIELDDRAKE
  A sheldrake.
• EXAMPLESS
  Exampleless. B. Jonson.
• SHIELDLESS
  Destitute of a shield, or of protection. -- Shield"less*ly, adv. -- Shield"less*ness, n.
• EXAMPLE
  orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from 1. One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen. 2. That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy. For I have
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SHIELD
  In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. (more info) akin to OS. scild, OFries. skeld, D. & G. schild, OHG. scilt, Icel. skjöldr, Sw. sköld, Dan. skiold, Goth. skildus; of uncertain
• EXAMPLER
  A pattern; an exemplar.
• SHIELDTAIL
  Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidæ, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated.
• EXAMPLELESS
  Without or above example.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• WATER SHIELD
  An aquatic American plant having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly.
• ENSHIELD
  To defend, as with a shield; to shield. Shak.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach