Word Meanings - PAPILLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.

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• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PAPILLIFORM
  Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BEAR
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• PAPILLOUS
  Papillary; papillose.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• PAPILLAR
  See PAPILLOSE
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
• FORKBEARD
  A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• PALLBEARER
  One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• UNDERBEARER
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• ABEARANCE
  Behavior. Blackstone.