Word Meanings - BLASTOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
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- NAMELESSLY
In a nameless manner. - NAMABLE
Capable of being named. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOSSILIZATION
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - NAMELESS
1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless - FOUND
1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his - NAMER
One who names, or calls by name. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - NAMAYCUSH
A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi. - FOSSILIZE
1. To become fossil. 2. To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - NAMESAKE
One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. - FOSSIL
Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by - NAMBY-PAMBY
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford. - NAMELY
1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular - FOSSILIST
One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black. - FOSSILIZED
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle. - PENTREMITES
A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra. - PALEOCRINOIDEA
A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. - DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force. - DYNAMOMETER
An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by - CORK FOSSIL
A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork. - SERIES DYNAMO
A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others. - MONODYNAMISM
The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes. - HEMADYNAMOMETER
An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer. - ADYNAMIC
Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.