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Word Meanings - PRESCAPULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.

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  • FRONTIERSMAN
    A man living on the frontier.
  • SPINEL; SPINELLE
    A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
  • SPINED
    Furnished with spines; spiny.
  • FRONTIERED
    Placed on the frontiers.
  • SPINEL
    Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
  • FRONTLESSLY
    Shamelessly; impudently.
  • FRONTED
    Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
  • FRONTLET
    The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
  • FRONTAGE
    The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
  • SCAPULARY
    See A
  • SPINE-TAILED
    Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
  • SPINE-FINNED
    Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
  • SPINETED
    Slit; cleft.
  • FRONTIER
    An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
  • FRONTLESS
    Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
  • SPINELESS
    Having no spine.
  • FRONTON
    See 2
  • ABOVEBOARD
    Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
  • ABOVESAID
    Mentioned or recited before.
  • ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
    Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
  • PRESCAPULA
    The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • CONFRONT
    1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
  • SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
    Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
  • INFRASCAPULAR
    Beneath the scapula, or shoulder blade; subscapular.
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • EFFRONTUOUSLY
    Impudently. R. North.

 

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