Word Meanings - ISCHIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic. Ischial callosity , one of the patches of thickened hairless, and often bright-colored skin, on the buttocks of many apes, as the drill.

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• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• ISCHIAC
  See ISCHIAL
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• ISCHIAL
  Of or pertaining to the ischium or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic. Ischial callosity , one of the patches of thickened hairless, and often bright-colored skin, on the buttocks of many apes, as the drill.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• DRILL PRESS
  A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
• COLOR
  An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• COLORIFIC
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• COLORIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• COLOR SERGEANT
  See SERGEANT
• DRILL
  1. To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. 2. To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to
• COLORATION
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• QUADRILLE
  meeting of four or more persons or It. quadriglia a band of soldiers, a sort of dance; dim. fr. L. quadra a square, fr. quattuor four. See 1. A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set. 2. The appropriate
• WATER-COLORIST
  One who paints in water colors.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.