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Word Meanings - NETTLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A process by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope. The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.

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  • TYPHLOSOLE
    A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
  • TYPIFICATION
    The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.
  • TYPE
    A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • TYRANT
    Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidæ; -- called also tyrant bird. Note: These birds are noted for their irritability and pugnacity, and for the courage with which they attack rapacious birds
  • TYMP
    A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
  • TYRANNOUS
    Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr"an*nous*ly, adv.
  • TYPEWRITING
    The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
  • TYNY
    Small; tiny.
  • TYPESETTING
    The act or art of setting type.
  • TY-ALL
    Something serving to tie or secure. Latimer.
  • JOINTWEED
    A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • TYRIAN
    1. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people. 2. Being of the color called Tyrian purple. The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye. Pope. Tyrian purple, or Tyrian dye, a celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks,
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • TYCOON
    The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
  • TYLOPODA
    A tribe of ungulates comprising the camels.
  • TYPOCOSMY
    A representation of the world.
  • TYSTIE
    The black guillemot.
  • PREVENTABLE
    Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
  • MEATY
    Abounding in meat.
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • MARTYROLOGIC; MARTYROLOGICAL
    Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.
  • INCORRIGIBILITY
    The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.
  • FLUXILITY
    State of being fluxible.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • TENUITY
    1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair. 2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of
  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • SUPERFLUITY
    1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • OPACITY
    1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.
  • TENSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
  • EMOTIVITY
    Emotiveness. Hickok.
  • JOVIALITY
    The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
  • ACCENDIBILITY
    Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.

 

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