Word Meanings - CEPHALIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index , the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from
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Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index , the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.
Related words: (words related to CEPHALIC)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - RATIOCINATE
To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope. - RATIONALIZATION
The act or process of rationalizing. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - UNDERDO
To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew. - RIGHT-RUNNING
Straight; direct. - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - COMMISERATION
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - PERICRANIUM
The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium. - DEDECORATION
Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey. - INCARCERATION
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.