Word Meanings - OBLONG-OVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

Related words: (words related to OBLONG-OVATE)

• OVATED
  Ovate.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.
• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATTER-DAY SAINT
  A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.
• LATTERKIN
  A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice.
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• INCLINING
  See 3
• OVATE-ACUMINATE
  Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• OVATE-OBLONG
  Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
• LATTER
  1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. 2. Of two things, the one mentioned second. The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• OBLONGNESS
  State or quality of being oblong.
• OVATE-ROTUNDATE
  Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.
• OVATE-CYLINDRACEOUS
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• OBLONG
  Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• OVATE
  Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
• BLATTER
  To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
• OBOVATE
  Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• BLATTEROON
  A senseless babbler or boaster. "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• INNOVATE
  1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• SLATTER
  To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.
• SUBOVATED
  Subovate.