Word Meanings - PINION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• LITHOPHANE
  Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.
• LARGE
  A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.
• LARVA
  Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
• YOUNGLING
  A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar
• YOUNGGER
  One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12.
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• ECHOLESS
  Without echo or response.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• CHOLESTERIN
  A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.