Word Meanings - CEPHALOTHORAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• UNIT
  The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat,
• UNITABLE
  Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen.
• UNITIVELY
  In a unitive manner. Cudworth.
• UNITARIAN
  Of or pertaining to Unitarians, or their doctrines.
• CRUSTACEA
  One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• PORTION
  1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.