Word Meanings - ACTINOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

Related words: (words related to ACTINOST)

• PAIRER
  One who impairs. Wyclif.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• PAIRMENT
  Impairment. Wyclif.
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• PAIRING
  1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
• PAIR
  In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. Note: Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair, a
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• APPAIR
  To impair; to grow worse.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• APAIR
  To impair or become impaired; to injure. Chaucer.
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.
• REPAIR
  fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
• CROSSBONES
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
• DESPAIR
  To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake. Syn. -- See Despond. (more info) desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin
• REPAIRABLE
  Reparable. Gauden.
• DESPAIRFUL
  Hopeless. Spenser.