Word Meanings - ACANTHOPTERYGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

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• FINNED
  Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FINNISH
  Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. -- n.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• FINNS
  Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.
• 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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SPINY
  1. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree. 2. Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman. 3. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton.
• FINNER
  A finback whale.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• FINNAN HADDIE
  Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• FINNIC
  Of or pertaining to the Finns.
• GOLDFINNY
  One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• SPINE-FINNED
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving