Word Meanings - FORKBEARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - FORK
1. An instrument consisting consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - FORKTAIL
One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth. - FORKLESS
Having no fork. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - CALL
callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - CALLIOPE
The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) + - CALLOT
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson. - CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - DUNGFORK
A fork for tossing dung. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - STEREOGRAPHICALLY
In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - ACRONYCALLY
In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ. - DIAMETRICALLY
In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay. - PHYSIOLOGICALLY
In a physiological manner. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.