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Word Meanings - CROSSBOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

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  • 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
  • PLACODERMATA
    See PLACODERMI
  • STOCKER
    One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • PLACID
    Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • WEAPONRY
    Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • PLACIT
    A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • PLACOPHORA
    A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
  • FORME
    See PATTé
  • FORMEDON
    A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • UNPLACABLE
    Implacable.
  • 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.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • PENNIFORM
    Having the form of a feather or plume.
  • DENDRIFORM
    Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

 

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