Word Meanings - GANOINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• SCALENOHEDRON
  A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
• ENAMELED
  Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
• ENAMEL
  A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe. 3. That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated. (more info) 1. A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a surface, as of metal
• TISSUE
  One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
• SCALER
  One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
• SCALED
  Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove , any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its colored feather tips resemble scales. (more info) 1. Covered with scales,
• SCALELESS
  Destitute of scales.
• SCALENE
  Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle. Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone. Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles. Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles. Scalene muscles , a
• SCALE
  The sign or constellation Libra. Platform scale. See under Platform. tip the scales, influence an action so as to change an outcome from one likely result to another. (more info) skal balance, dish, akin also to D. schaal a scale, bowl, shell,
• GANOIDAL
  Ganoid.
• GANOIDIAN
  Ganoid.
• ENAMELER; ENAMELIST
  One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• INTERTISSUED
  Interwoven. Shak.
• RHOMBOGANOIDEI
  See GINGLYMODI
• SAN JOSE SCALE
  A very destructive scale insect that infests the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. So called because first introduced into the United States at San José, California.
• ENSCALE
  To cover with scales.
• BECK'S SCALE
  A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30º-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length.
• CHONDROGANOIDEA
  An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
• PLACOGANOIDEI
  A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• INTRANSCALENT
  Impervious to heat; adiathermic.