Word Meanings - INTESTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton. 2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders,
Additional info about word: INTESTINE
1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton. 2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc. Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. Milton. An intestine struggle . . . between authority and liberty. Hume. 3. Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Everything labors under and intestine necessity. Cudworth. 4. Shut up; inclosed. Cowper.
Related words: (words related to INTESTINE)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - COUNTRY SEAT
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - INWARD; INWARDS
1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - DOMESTICATE
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.