Word Meanings - AQUILINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Belonging to or like an eagle. 2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

Related words: (words related to AQUILINE)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ARCHDUKE
  A prince of the imperial family of Austria. Note: Formerly this title was assumed by the rulers of Lorraine, Brabant, Austria, etc. It is now appropriated to the descendants of the imperial family of Austria through the make line, all such male
• ARCHIVIST
  A keeper of archives or records.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ARCHETYPE
  The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. (more info) 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which
• ARCHONTATE
  An archon's term of office. Gibbon.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• HOOKE'S GEARING
  Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• ARCHIL
  1. A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.
• ARCHICAL
  Chief; primary; primordial. Cudworth.
• EAGLEWOOD
  A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• ARCH STONE
  A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
• ARCHWAY
  A way or passage under an arch.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• MONARCHIAN
  One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.
• OLIGARCHIST
  An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.
• THEARCHY
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).