Word Meanings - HERMETICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. In an hermetical manner; chemically. Boyle. 2. By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure. Note: A vessel or tube is hermetically sealed when it is closed completely against the passage of air or other fluid by fusing the extremity;
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1. In an hermetical manner; chemically. Boyle. 2. By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure. Note: A vessel or tube is hermetically sealed when it is closed completely against the passage of air or other fluid by fusing the extremity; -- sometimes less properly applied to any air-tight closure.
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- FLUID
A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism, - 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 - TIGHTENER
That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley. - FUSURE
Act of fusing; fusion. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - FUSCIN
A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - 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 - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - TIGHT
p. p. of Tie. Spenser. - SEALER
A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - FUSTIGATE
To cudgel. Bailey. - BOYLE'S LAW
See LAW - 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. - FUSTIAN
1. Made of fustian. 2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole. - 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. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - WINDTIGHT
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall. - 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. - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - DEFUSE
To disorder; to make shapeless. Shak. - UNSEAL
1. To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter. Unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch. Sir W. Scott. 2. To disclose, as a secret. The Coronation. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.