Word Meanings - BRONTOMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

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• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• PHENOMENALISM
  That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• PHENOMENAL
  Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory. -- Phe*nom"e*nal*ly, adv.
• NOTTURNO
  See NOCTURNE
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• NOTUS
  The south wind.
• NOTARY
  A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial
• NOTAEUM
  The back or upper surface, as of a bird.
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• NOTIFY
  1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth. 2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the
• NOTAL
  Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.
• NOTABILIA
  Things worthy of notice.
• NOTCHWEED
  A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
• NOTCHING
  A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• HUGUENOTISM
  The religion of the Huguenots in France.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• POST NOTE
  A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.
• HEADNOTE
  A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOT
  chnodo, chnoto, G. knoten, Icel. kn, Sw. knut, Dan. knude, and perh. A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling. A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord,