Word Meanings - VALKYRIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle. "Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns." Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to VALKYRIAN)

• TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
  Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
• TRINE
  The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon. In sextile, square, and trine. Milton. 2. A triad; trinity. A single trine of brazen tortoises. Mrs. Browning. Eternal One, Almighty Trine! Keble.
• TRICLINATE
  Triclinic.
• TRIPUDIARY
  Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• TRIOECIOUS
  Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• TRINKETER
  One who trinkets.
• TRIBUNARY
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• TRISKELION; TRISKELE
  A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
• VALKYRIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Valkyrias; hence, relating to battle. "Ourself have often tried Valkyrian hymns." Tennyson.
• TRICLINIUM
  A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.
• TRIFURCATE; TRIFURCATED
  Having three branches or forks; trichotomous.
• TRIGONAL
  Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.
• TRICHINA
  A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they
• TRINDLE
  See TRUNDLE
• TRIPODIAN
  An ancient stringed instrument; -- so called because, in form, it resembled the Delphic tripod.
• TRINOCTIAL
  Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
• TRIAMIDE
  An amide containing three amido groups.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• VENTRILOQUY
  See VENTRILOQUISM
• INTRINSICAL
  1. Intrinsic. 2. Intimate; closely familiar. Sir H. Wotton.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• TRAY-TRIP
  An old game played with dice. Shak.
• ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to anemometry.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBTRIPLICATE
  Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios. Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, the subtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cube roota/b.
• TANTRISM
  The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.