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Word Meanings - PRICK-EARED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • EAR
    , G. ohr, Icel. eyra, Sw. öra, Dan. öre, Goth. auso, L. auris, Lith. ausis, Russ. ukho, Gr. audire to hear, Gr. av to favor , protect. Cf. 1. The organ of hearing; the external ear. Note: In man and the higher vertebrates, the organ of hearing
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • EARLDOM
    1. The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl. 2. The status, title, or dignity of an earl. He shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.
  • EAR-MINDED
    Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.
  • EARPICK
    An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • EARLY
    Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • ICELANDER
    A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.
  • PRICKING-UP
    The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.
  • PRICKPUNCH
    A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • EARWAX
    See CERUMEN
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • DISAPPEARING
    p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
  • COCHLEARE
    A spoonful. Dungleson. (more info) 1. A spoon. Andrews.
  • DOG'S-EAR
    The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
  • RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
    Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
  • TEAR
    A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct
  • UNGEAR
    To strip of gear; to unharness; to throw out of gear.
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • BESMEAR
    To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • MAINSWEAR
    To swear falsely. Blount.
  • WEARIABLE
    That may be wearied.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.

 

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