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Word Meanings - EYELID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

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  • 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.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • MOVABLE
    1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • 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
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • 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.
  • PLEASURER
    A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
  • ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • IRREMOVABLE
    Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.

 

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