Word Meanings - TROCHILIDIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.

Related words: (words related to TROCHILIDIST)

• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• HUMMEL
  To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• VERSABLENESS
  Versability.
• VERS DE SOCIETE
  See SOCIETY
• HUMMER
  A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
• VERST
  A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet.
• VERSAL
  Universal. Shak.
• VERSUTE
  Crafty; wily; cunning; artful.
• VERSOR
  The turning factor of a quaternion. Note: The change of one vector into another is considered in quaternions as made up of two operations; 1st, the rotation of the first vector so that it shall be parallel to the second; 2d, the change of length
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• VERSANT
  Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.
• VERSATILITY
  The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
• VERSABLE
  Capable of being turned.
• TROCHILIDIST
  One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• VERSEMONGER
  A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• VERSIFICATION
  The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• OVERSHOT
  From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• ESTOVERS
  Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's
• THUMMIE
  The chiff-chaff.
• DIVERS
  directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• RENVERSEMENT
  A reversing.
• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• AVERSATION
  A turning from with dislike; aversion. Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.