Word Meanings - THORACICA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.

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• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• CIRRIFEROUS
  Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• CIRRIGEROUS
  Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• COMMON
  1. To converse together; to discourse; to confer. Embassadors were sent upon both parts, and divers means of entreaty were commoned of. Grafton. 2. To participate. Sir T. More. 3. To have a joint right with others in common ground. Johnson. 4.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• BEAR
  1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not,
• CIRRIPED
  One of the Cirripedia.
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• PROTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• 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.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.