Word Meanings - OVATE-LANCEOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• OVATED
  Ovate.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• LANCEOLATE; LANCEOLATED
  Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• 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.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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.
• OVATE-ACUMINATE
  Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
• OVATE-OBLONG
  Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• 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.
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• 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,
• OBLANCEOLATE
  Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• 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
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving