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Word Meanings - ANFRACTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind, bend; an-, for amb- +

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • WIND-RODE
    Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
  • WINDINGLY
    In a winding manner.
  • ANGULARITY
    The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
  • INDEXICAL
    Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
  • WINDTIGHT
    So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
  • CROOKBILL
    A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
  • BOW OAR
    . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
  • WINDLACE
    See SCOTT
  • WIND-SHAKEN
    Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
  • BOWKNOT
    A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • TURNINGNESS
    The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • WINDBORE
    The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
  • TURNING
    The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
  • SERPENTINELY
    In a serpentine manner.
  • 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.
  • TURN
    1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. 2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the
  • BOWYER
    1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
  • RE-TURN
    To turn again.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • CHOKING COIL
    A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
  • SUBPENTANGULAR
    Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • DISEMBOWERED
    Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
  • NOCTURNAL
    1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
  • BOWGE
    To swell out. See Bouge.
  • EMBOWL
    To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.

 

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