Word Meanings - ARISTOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science of dining. Quart. Rev.

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• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• QUARTENE
  See BUTYLENE
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• DINSOME
  Full of din. Burns.
• DINER-OUT
  One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.
• DINORNIS
  A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• QUARTENYLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.
• DINAR
  1. A petty money of accounts of Persia. 2. An ancient gold coin of the East.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• DINGLE
  A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
• DINGLE-DANGLE
  In a dangling manner.
• QUARTAN
  Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
• DINER
  One who dines.
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• APTITUDINAL
  Suitable; fit.
• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• PIPERIDINE
  An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• QUINOIDINE
  A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
• ALDINE
  An epithet applied to editions which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• NODDING
  Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• BEADING
  Molding in imitation of beads. 2. The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
• MANDINGOS
  ; sing. Mandingo. An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
• ODINIC
  Of or pertaining to Odin.