Word Meanings - WARTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. 2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg , a marine univalve shell , having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.
Related words: (words related to WARTY)
- SHELL-LESS
, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - WARTY-BACK
An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons. - MARINE
Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and - HAVENER
A harbor master. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - WARTY
1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. 2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg , a marine univalve shell , having the surface covered with wartlike elevations. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - SHELLER
One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - SHELL
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - OVERGROW
1. To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott. 2. To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. - SHELLAPPLE
See SHELDAFLE - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - SLIT-SHELL
Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas. - 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. - MASK SHELL
Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.