Word Meanings - BOVINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope. 2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze
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of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope. 2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.
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- CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - PATIENTLY
In a patient manner. Cowper. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - BOVINE
of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope. 2. Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - ANTELOPE
One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser. Note: The common or bezoar - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - TEMPERAMENTAL
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck. - OVERPATIENT
Patient to excess. - OMNIPATIENT
Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - OUT-PATIENT
A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative.