Word Meanings - ACANTHOPHOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Spine-bearing. Gray.
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- SPINEL; SPINELLE
A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also - SPINED
Furnished with spines; spiny. - SPINEL
Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight. - SPINE-TAILED
Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail . - SPINE-FINNED
Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - SPINETED
Slit; cleft. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - SPINELESS
Having no spine. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - BEAR
1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not, - BEARDIE
The bearded loach of Europe. - BEARDLESS
1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. - BEARING CLOTH
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. - SPINEBACK
A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins. - BEARDED
Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata. - BEARING REIN
A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - MISBEAR
To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - PALLBEARER
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. - UNDERBEARER
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall. - ABEARANCE
Behavior. Blackstone. - RUSH-BEARING
A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. Nares.