Word Meanings - GRADUATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the

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Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels. -- Graduated spring , a combination of metallic and rubber springs. (more info) 1. Marked with, or divided into, degrees; divided into grades.

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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
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• TAPERED
  Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. T. Warton.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• GRADUATOR
  1. One who determines or indicates graduation; as, a graduator of instruments. 2. An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals. 3. An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• BOTTLE
  bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle
• 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.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• MARKSMAN
  One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
• GRADUATED
  Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer. Graduated tube, bottle, cap, or glass, a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• 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
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.