Word Meanings - DORSUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue. (more info) 1. The ridge of a hill.

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• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• 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.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• DORSUM
  The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue. (more info) 1. The ridge of a hill.
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• PORRIDGE
  A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. (more info) by OE. porree a kind of pottage,
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.