Word Meanings - LIVONIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.

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• RUSSIA
  A country of Europe and Asia. Russia iron, a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface. -- Russia leather, a soft kind of leather, made originally in Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• 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
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• RUSSIAN CHURCH
  The established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology
• RUSSIAN
  Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language. -- n.
• RUSSIANIZE
  To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• LIVONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.
• BALTIC
  Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea. (more info) certain straits or channels surrounding its isles, called belts. See
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• PRUSSIATE
  A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. Red prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferricyanide, under Ferricyanide. Yellow prussiate of potash. See Potassium ferrocyanide, under Ferrocyanide.
• FERROPRUSSIATE
  A ferrocyanate; a ferocyanide.
• FERRIPRUSSIATE
  A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
• COBALTIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide. Luteo-cobaltic compounds , an extensive series of complex yellow compounds of ammonia and cobaltic
• PRUSSIAN
  Of or pertaining to Prussia. -- n.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• LUTEOCOBALTIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride , a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6 12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach