Word Meanings - TRIPODIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
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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 . - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - TRIPODIAN
An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - 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 - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - STRING
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. (more info) G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong ; or perhaps originally meaning, twisted, - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - CALLOSE
Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. - STRINGER
A longitudinal sleeper. (more info) 1. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. Ascham. 2. A libertine; a wencher. Beau. & Fl. - STRINGINESS
Quality of being stringy. - CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - STRINGHALT
An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. - STRINGY
1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root. 2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely. Stringy bark , a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus - CALLIGRAPHY
Fair or elegant penmanship. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - NAVEL-STRING
The umbilical cord. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - 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. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - DIDELPHIC
Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia. - 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. - PHYSIOLOGICALLY
In a physiological manner. - DIAMETRICALLY
In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay. - ETHNICALLY
In an ethnical manner. - ECCENTRICALLY
In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.