Word Meanings - LOGOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. 2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C.

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• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered