Word Meanings - HEXACTINELLID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.
Related words: (words related to HEXACTINELLID)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - RAYLESS
Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - RAYONNANT
Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out. - 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. - RAYON
Ray; beam. Spenser. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - RAYAH
A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. - RAY GRASS
A perennial European grass ; -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. Italian ray, or rye, grass. See Darnel, and Grass. - BELONG
attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - HAVIOR
Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to - HAVOC
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel - BELONGING
1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household. - HEXACTINELLINE
Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules. - HAVER
A possessor; a holder. Shak. - TRAY-TRIP
An old game played with dice. Shak. - CRAY; CRAYER
See CRARE - TRAY
To betray; to deceive. Chaucer. - STING RAY; STINGRAY
Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American - BETA RAYS
Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much - GRAYWACKE
A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together. Note: This term, derved from the grauwacke of German miners, was formerly applied in geology to different grits and slates of the Silurian series; but it is - FRAY
Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak. - HODDENGRAY
Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - ASTRAY
Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - OUTRAYE
See CHAUCER - DISARRAY
1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser. - UNWRAY
See UNWRIE