Word Meanings - ANCON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep , a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

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• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• ANCON
  The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep , a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.
• OTTER
  A corruption of Annotto.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.