Word Meanings - MADRINA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An animal , wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
Related words: (words related to MADRINA)
- ACTURE
Action. Shak. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - TROOPSHIP
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. - ACTINARIA
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - WEARIABLE
That may be wearied. - ACTUARIAL
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - WEARING
1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - WEARILY
In a weary manner. - ACTIVITY
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. - ACTUATE
Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - TROOPBIRD
Any troupial. - ACTINOPHOROUS
Having straight projecting spines. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - AUTODIDACT
One who is self-taught; an automath. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose.