Word Meanings - SPADEFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.
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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 . - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - SPADER
One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine. - SPADE
A hart or stag three years old. 2. Etym: - UNITIVE
Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor. - 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 - UNITARIANISM
The doctrines of Unitarians. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - UNITARIANIZE
To change or turn to Unitarian views. - 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. - EASTERN CHURCH
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern - CALLOSE
Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. - UNIT
The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, - 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.