Word Meanings - DARTOS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

Related words: (words related to DARTOS)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• TISSUE
  One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
• SCROTUM
  The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• PECULIARITY
  1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SLAYER
  One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
• UNDERLAYER
  A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• OVERLAYER
  One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
• MISLAYER
  One who mislays.