Word Meanings - CHYLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - ABSORBING
Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - ABSORBITION
Absorption. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - METATHORACIC
Of or pertaining to the metathorax. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.