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. - INCORRIGIBILITY
The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow. - MARTYROLOGIC; MARTYROLOGICAL
Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs. - 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 - 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. - 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 - AMENABILITY
The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge. - TENSIBILITY
The quality or state of being tensible; tensility. - 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. - ACCENDIBILITY
Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. - EMOTIVITY
Emotiveness. Hickok. - JOVIALITY
The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.