Word Meanings - KNOBBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

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• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ENDOGENY
  Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• ENDOPLASM
  The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• BOTTOM
  1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon. Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their 2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom
• POINT
  puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort
• ENDOCHROME
  The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• ENDALL; END-ALL
  Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ENDERON
  The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes. -- En`de*ron"ic, a.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• ENDODERMIS
  A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• SHENDFUL
  Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• FACIEND
  The multiplicand. See Facient,
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• STIPENDIARIAN
  Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.