Word Meanings - GASEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid. 2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.

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• GASEOUS
  1. In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aëriform fluid. 2. Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous. "Unconnected, gaseous information." Sir J. Stephen.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• LACKEY
  An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• LACKER
  One who lacks or is in want.
• LACK
  1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak.
• TENUOUS
  Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument. (more info) 1. Thin; slender; small; minute. 2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• ETHERIFORM
  Having the form of ether.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• SECURIFORM
  Having the form of an ax hatchet.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• LIBRIFORM
  Having the form of liber, or resembling liber. Libriform cells, peculiar wood cells which are very slender and relatively thick- walled, and occasionally are furnished with bordered pits. Goodale.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• MITRIFORM
  Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra. Gray.
• TRIFORMITY
  The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape.
• ADIPOCERIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.
• SCALARIFORM
  Like or pertaining to a scalaria. (more info) 1. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• AURIFORM
  Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.