Word Meanings - TREPANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To trepan. "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.

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• TREPAN
  A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• TREPANIZE
  To trepan. "By trepanizing the skull." Jer. Taylor.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• TREPANNER
  One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.
• TREPANG
  Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of which are dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. Note: The edible trepangs are mostly large species of Holothuria, especially
• SKULL
  A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• SAPSKULL
  A saphead.
• CALAVERAS SKULL
  A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the
• THICKSKULL
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.
• NUMSKULLED
  Stupid; doltish.