Word Meanings - ANORTHOSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• REVOLVABLE
  That may be revolved.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• AMUSE
  1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• REVOLVENCY
  The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
• 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.
• REVOLVE
  1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• REVOLVING
  Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. Cowper.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• PAINT
  pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To
• 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.
• AMUSING
  Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
  Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• CAMUS
  See CAMIS
• OPTIC; OPTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.