Word Meanings - LANCEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family . Australian

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A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family . Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree .

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• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• FISHHAWK
  The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
• ARCHERY
  1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. 2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster .
• 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.
• FISH-TAIL
  Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• FISHWIFE
  A fishwoman.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FISHINESS
  The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• SEVERAL
  1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor
• FISH
  1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
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• BONEFISH
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• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOTOTHERIUM
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• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• MUFFISH
  Stupid; awkward.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• TIFFISH
  Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
• YELLOWFISH
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• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• DOGFISH
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• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• WINGFISH
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