Word Meanings - ACTINOLITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.
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- ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - CONTAINANT
A container. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - NATURELESS
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton. - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - NATURE
1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - 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. - DEMINATURED
Having half the nature of another. Shak. - TIME SIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as - ORNATURE
Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed. - CONSIGNATURE
Joint signature. Colgrave. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - TRANSNATURE
To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel. - DENATURE
To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of. - SIGNATURE
An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well - DISNATURED
Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak. - GOOD-NATUREDLY
With maldness of temper. - DECLINATURE
The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.