Word Meanings - FIBULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. (more info) 1. A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• BUCKLER
  A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. Blind buckler , a solid buckler. -- Buckler mustard , a genus of plants with small bright
• CLASPER
  1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• CLASPERED
  Furnished with tendrils.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• FIBULARE
  The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• FIBULA
  The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. (more info) 1. A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth.
• BUCKLE
  1. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink. Buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. Pepys. 2. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall. 3. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing. The Dutch, as high
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• BROOCH
  A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting. (more info) 1. An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men
• BUCKLER-HEADED
  Having a head like a buckler.
• BELOW
  1. In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott. 2. On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior. 3. In hell, or the regions of the dead. What
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• RECLASP
  To clasp or unite again.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• TURN-BUCKLE
  A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations