Word Meanings - BLEATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to BLEATING)

• CRYER
  The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• CRYPTOGRAM
  A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
• 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
• CRYSTAL
  The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• BLEATING
  Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.
• SHEEP'S-FOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• SHEPHERDIA
  A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
• CRYPTOPINE
  A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
• SHEEP-HEADED
  Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor
• CRY
  shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, 1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
  One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
• SHEEPBITER
  One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.
• CRYPTOBRANCHIATA
  A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.
• SHEEPSKIN
  1. The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it. 2. A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• BLEATER
  One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• APOCRYPHA
  1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. Locke. 2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HAEMATOCRYA
  The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.
• ILLACRYMABLE
  Incapable of weeping. Bailey.