Word Meanings - FULGURITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• FUSE PLUG; FUZE PLUG
  A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse. 2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.
• FUSILE
  See A
• FUSURE
  Act of fusing; fusion.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• FUSCIN
  A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
• FUSION
  The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues. (more info) 1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals. 2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a
• 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.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• LIGHTNESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; delicacy; grace. Syn. -- Levity; volatility; instability; inconstancy; unsteadiness; giddiness; flightiness; airiness; gayety; liveliness; agility;
• VITRIFIED
  Converted into glass.
• VITRIFICABLE
  Vitrifiable.
• FUSTIGATE
  To cudgel. Bailey.
• VITRIFICATION
  See URE
• FUSIL
  1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. "A fusil sea." J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. Milton.
• FUSTILUG; FUSTILUGS
  A gross, fat, unwieldy person. F. Junius.
• FUSTINESS
  A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
• FUSILEER; FUSILIER
  Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• AFFUSE
  To pour out or upon. I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.
• PERFUSIVE
  Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
• 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.
• DEFUSE
  To disorder; to make shapeless. Shak.
• SEMIVITRIFIED
  Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.