Word Meanings - CONTRAFISSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• 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.
• FRACTURE
  The breaking of a bone. (more info) 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• RECEIVEDNESS
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
• RECEIVERSHIP
  The state or office of a receiver.
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• RECEIVABILITY
  The quality of being receivable; receivableness.
• RECEIVER
  A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other
• FISSURELLA
  A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.
• RECEIVABLE
  Capable of being received. -- Re*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. Bills receivable. See under 6th Bill.
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• REFRACTURE
  A second breaking by the surgeon.
• CONTRAFISSURE
  A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.
• ANFRACTURE
  A mazy winding.
• EQUIDISTANCE
  Equal distance.