Word Meanings - DISSECTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. 2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. 3.
Additional info about word: DISSECTING
1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. 2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. 3. Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
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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 - SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - DURAMEN
The heartwood of an exogenous tree. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - DIVIDER
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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 - DIVIDEND
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A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; - DUROUS
Hard. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - DURANTE
During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure. - SEPARATIVE
Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle. - DURANCY
Duration. Dr. H. More. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - DURRA
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Not separate; together; united. Shak. - SUBINDIVIDUAL
A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. - REVERDURE
To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners. - PODURA
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A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. - ORDURE
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