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Word Meanings - CANALICULUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A minute canal.

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  • 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.

 

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