Word Meanings - MINERVA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

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• GODDESS
  1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
• WEAVER
  A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• IDENTIFIABLE
  Capable of being identified.
• SPINNERULE
  One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
• SPINNEY
  See HUGHES
• SPINNER
  A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
• PALLAS
  Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
• ATHENEUM; ATHENAEUM
  A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students. 2. A school founded at Rome by Hadrian. 3. A literary or scientific association or club. 4. A building or an apartment where a
• WISDOM
  1. The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity. We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but
• GRECIAN
  Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.
• POETRY
  1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions,
• SPINNERET
  One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line
• SPINNY
  A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies. C. Kingsley. (more info) espanoi, F. épinaie, from L. spinetum a thicket of thorns, fr. spina
• IDENTIFICATION
  The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.
• WEAVING
  An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle. Youatt. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, weaves; the act or art of forming cloth
• WEAVE
  AS. wefan; akin to D. weven, G. weben, OHG. weban, Icel. vefa, Sw. väfva, Dan. væve, Gr. spider, lit., wool weaver. Cf. Waper, Waffle, 1. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a
• SPINNAKER
  A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
• SPINNING
  from Spin. Spinning gland , one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ. -- Spinning house, formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed
• WEAVERFISH
  See WEEVER
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• UNWEAVE
  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
• UNWISDOM
  Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J.
• SEA GODDESS
  A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
• GRECIZE; GRECIANIZE
  To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.
• INTERWEAVE
  1. To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton. 2. To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect