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Word Meanings - ANSERIFORMES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

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  • ALLICIENT
    That attracts; attracting. -- n.
  • ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
    Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
  • ALLITERAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • ALLITERATOR
    One who alliterates.
  • ALLIED
    United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
  • ALLICE; ALLIS
    The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
  • ALLIGATION
    A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain
  • ALLITERATE
    To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
  • ALLIGATE
    To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
  • ALLIGNMENT
    See ALIGNMENT
  • INCLUDED
    Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
  • ALLIGATOR WRENCH
    A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.
  • ALLIANCE
    1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances;
  • DIVISIONAL
    That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
  • ALLIUM
    A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
  • ALLISION
    The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.
  • ALLIANT
    An ally; a confederate. Sir H. Wotton.
  • ALLITERATIVE
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.
  • GALLIASS
    See GALLEASS
  • DALLIANCE
    1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
  • KAKARALLI
    A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
  • 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.
  • CORALLIGENOUS
    producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
  • REALLIANCE
    A renewed alliance.
  • IMPALLID
    To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
    See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  • CRYSTALLIZATION
    The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
  • MISALLIED
    Wrongly allied or associated.
  • BALLISTER
    A crossbow.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • SEMICRYSTALLINE
    Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
  • CRYSTALLIZE
    To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
  • HALLIDOME
    See HALIDOM
  • BALLISTA
    An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

 

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