Word Meanings - CANALICULUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A minute canal.
Related words: (words related to CANALICULUS)
- CANAL
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock. - CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. - CANALIZATION
Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. - MINUTE
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as, - MINUTEMAN
A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution. - CANALICULUS
A minute canal. - MINUTE-JACK
1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak. - MINUTENESS
The quality of being minute. - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely. - CANAL COAL
See COAL - DECANAL
Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used. - SUBDECANAL
Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery. - DIMINUTE
Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor. - DIMINUTELY
Diminutively. - RURIDECANAL
Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.