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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,

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  • 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.

 

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