Word Meanings - OVATE-ACUMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - OVATED
Ovate. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - SLENDER
Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen, - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - POINTLESS
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - NARROWER
One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. - OBOVATE
Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. - 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, - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - 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 - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - INTERPOINT
To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment.