Word Meanings - PETTO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The breast. In petto, in the breast; hence, in secrecy; in reserve.

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• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• SECRECY
  1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• PETTO
  The breast. In petto, in the breast; hence, in secrecy; in reserve.
• BREASTHOOK
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.
• BREAST-HIGH
  High as the breast.
• BREASTBAND
  A band for the breast. Specifically: A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
• BREASTFAST
  A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• BREAST
  1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. 2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia,
• BREASTBEAM
  The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
• BREASTROPE
  See BREASTBAND
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• BREASTPIN
  A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTING
  The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• CHIMNEY-BREAST
  The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.