Word Meanings - EARCOCKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.
Related words: (words related to EARCOCKLE)
- WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves. - GRAINED
Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped, - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - DISEASEFUL
1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate. - 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. - GRAINING
The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting - CONTRACTED
1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted - DISEASEFULNESS
The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney. - GRAINY
Resembling grains; granular. - MINUTELY
In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely. - FILLISTER
1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top. - 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. - GRAINER
1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, - FILL
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak. - WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
See BRIDGE - HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. - JUMPING DISEASE
A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - FELT GRAIN
, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight. - MIGRAINE
See A - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - WEIL'S DISEASE
An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.