Word Meanings - CHIROMANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.

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• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• TELLABLE
  Capable of being told.
• TELLURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• TELLEN
  Any species of Tellina.
• INSPECTIVE
  Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
• TELLURIZE
  To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
• TELLURIC
  Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PALMISTRY
  1. The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. Ascham. Cowper. 2. A dexterous use or trick of the hand. Addison.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• TELLTALE
  Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.
• TELLURAL
  Of or pertaining to the earth.
• INSPECTRESS
  A female inspector.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• TELLINA
  A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
• INSPECTORATE
  Inspectorship.
• FORETELL
  To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• ROSTELLAR
  Pertaining to a rostellum.
• PATELLAR
  Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• STELLED
  Firmly placed or fixed. "The stelled fires" . Shak.
• INTERSTELLAR
  Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• INTELLIGENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.
• CAPITELLATE
  Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
• PSEUDOSTELLA
  Any starlike meteor or phenomenon.
• INCASTELLATED
  Confined or inclosed in a castle.