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Word Meanings - PALEECHINOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palæechini.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • EXTINCT
    1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton. 2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • ECHINITAL
    Of, or like, an echinite.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • FOUNDER
    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • FOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Find.
  • FOUNDATIONER
    One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • VERTICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Perpendicular to the plane
  • FOUNDEROUS
    Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • CALLOSE
    Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
  • FOUNDRESS
    A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
  • CALLIDITY
    Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
  • FOUNDERY
    See FOUNDRY
  • VERTICALNESS
    Quality or state of being vertical.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • ACRONYCALLY
    In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • PHYSIOLOGICALLY
    In a physiological manner.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.

 

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