Word Meanings - HYMENIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.
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- SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - FUNGIVOROUS
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - MUSHROOM-HEADED
Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom. - FUNGIN
A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - FUNGIBLES
Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - BEAR
1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not, - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - FUNGITE
A fossil coral resembling Fungia. - BEARDIE
The bearded loach of Europe. - SURFACE TENSION
That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth - BEARDLESS
1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. - FUNGIFORM
Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue. - BEARING CLOTH
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. - FUNGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - PHAEOSPORE
A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - EPISPORE
The thickish outer coat of certain spores. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DIASPORE
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - MISBEAR
To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer. - EXOSPORE
The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - PALLBEARER
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - UNDERBEARER
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.