Word Meanings - HORNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American

Additional info about word: HORNET

A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white- faced hornet is larger and has similar habits. Hornet fly , any dipterous insect of the genus Asilus, and allied genera, of which there are numerous species. They are large and fierce flies which capture bees and other insects, often larger than themselves, and suck their blood. Called also hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. (more info) horniss; perh. akin to E. horn, and named from the sound it makes as if blowing the horn; but more prob. akin to D. horzel, Lith.

Related words: (words related to HORNET)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• AGROSTOLOGIST
  One skilled in agrostology.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• THIRSTILY
  In a thirsty manner.