Word Meanings - LANCET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch , a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches

Additional info about word: LANCET

An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch , a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height. -- Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century. -- Lancet fish. A large, voracious, deep-sea fish , having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth. The doctor, or surgeon fish. (more info) 1. A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

Related words: (words related to LANCET)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• COMPARATIVELY
  According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• TAPPER
  The lesser spotted woodpecker ; -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
• 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.
• TAPPET
  A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion. G. Francis. Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without
• TAPPOON
  A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• COMPARTMENT
  One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• TAPPESTER
  A female tapster. Chaucer.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COMPARER
  One who compares.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• COMPARISON
  The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• ENDOSTYLE
  A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• MONARCHESS
  A female monarch.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.