Word Meanings - CLAVICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter (more info) tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See

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The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter (more info) tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See Close, and

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• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• COLLARED
  Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins. 3. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t. (more
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• SCAPULARY
  See A
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• JOINER
  1. One who, or that which, joins. 2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak. 3. A wood-working machine, for
• COLLARET; COLLARETTE
  A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.
• COLLAR
  1. To seize by the collar. 2. To put a collar on. To collar beef , to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.
• JOINTING
  The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• CLAVIS
  A key; a glossary.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
  Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• PANSCLAVIC; PANSCLAVISM; PANSCLAVIST; PANSCLAVONIAN
  See ETC