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Word Meanings - PIERCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.

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  • STRE
    Straw. Chaucer.
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • STRONTIAN
    Strontia.
  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • STACK
    1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • STROMATIC
    Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • STUNNER
    1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
  • STATUELESS
    Without a statue.
  • STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
    Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
  • STRATARITHMETRY
    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • STRIATUM
    The corpus striatum.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • FREEDSTOOL
    See FRIDSTOL
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • IATROCHEMISTRY
    Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
    Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • TESTIFICATION
    The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
  • AGROSTOLOGIST
    One skilled in agrostology.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • BURINIST
    One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.

 

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