Word Meanings - PRETZEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

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• SALTATORY
  Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution , a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• SALTATORIA
  A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• SALTISH
  Somewhat salt. -- Salt"ish*ly, adv. -- Salt"ish*ness, n.
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• SALTATORIAL
  1. Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises. Same as Saltatorious. Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• SALTPETER; SALTPETRE
  Potassium nitrate; niter, a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the
• SALTERN
  A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
• BISCUIT
  A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so
• SALTATORIOUS
  Capable of leaping; formed for leaping; saltatory; as, a saltatorious insect or leg.
• SALTMOUTH
  A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• SALTIE
  The European dab.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• OXYSALT
  A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.
• SESQUISALT
  A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.