Word Meanings - VERTEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex. Specifically: -- (more info) whirl, top of the head, top, summit, from vertere to turn. See Verse,
Related words: (words related to VERTEX)
- PRINCIPALNESS
The quality of being principal. - CROWN SIDE
See OFFICE - CROWNED
1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing - WHIRLBONE
The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth. - VERSET
A verse. Milton. - PRINCIPALITY
preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. - CROWNER
A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym: - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - TURNINGNESS
The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney. - WHIRLWIND
1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots - TURNING
The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod - CROWNLAND
In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria. - TURN-SICK
Giddy. Bacon. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - CROWN OFFICE
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - TURNVEREIN
A company or association of gymnasts and athletes. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - TURNHALLE
A building used as a school of gymnastics. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - RE-TURN
To turn again. - 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, - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - NOCTURNAL
1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - SATURNISM
Plumbum. Quain. - RENVERSEMENT
A reversing. - DIUTURNAL
Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.