Word Meanings - HALF-MOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. (more info) 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See
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An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. (more info) 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.
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- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - 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 . - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - GORGEOUS
Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - ILLUMINATE
in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. 1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. 2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - CRESCENT
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. - ANGLE
A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles - SALIENT
Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing; - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - 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.