Word Meanings - WHITLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal

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An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone. (more info) or sore at the quick; cf. Icel. kvika the quick under the nail or

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• FELONIOUS
  Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• TERMINATE
  1. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics. 2. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close. The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• OCCUPY
  1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13. 2. To follow business; to traffic.
• TERMINATOR
  The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• SUPPURATION
  1. The act or process of suppurating. 2. The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
• TERMINATION
  The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
• TERMINATIVE
  Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• FELON
  A person who has committed a felony. 2. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime. (more info) whitlow, F. félon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• FELONOUS
  Wicked; felonious. Spenser.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• DISTERMINATE
  Separated by bounds. Bp. Hall.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• INFELONIOUS
  Not felonious, malignant, or criminal. G. Eliot.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• EXTERMINATORY
  Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.