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Word Meanings - HUMERUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.

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  • UPPERMOST
    Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • HUMERUS
    The bone of the brachium, or upper part of the arm or fore limb. The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • BRACHIUM
    The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • UPPER
    Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • CONTAIN
    1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
  • ANTIBRACHIUM
    That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
  • SUPPER
    A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
  • SELF-CONTAINED
    Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
  • CRUPPER
    1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
  • CUPPER
    One who performs the operation of cupping.
  • SUPPERLESS
    Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
  • DUPPER
    See DUBBER
  • SCUPPERNONG
    An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
  • SCUPPER
    An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole. Scupper hose , a pipe of leather, canvas, etc., attached to the mouth of the scuppers, on the outside of

 

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