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Word Meanings - PSEUDOSCORPIONES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

Related words: (words related to PSEUDOSCORPIONES)

  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STRE
    Straw. Chaucer.
  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • STRONTIAN
    Strontia.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • STROMATIC
    Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
  • 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
  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • STUNNER
    1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • STATUELESS
    Without a statue.
  • SCORPION
    Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting. Note: Scorpions have a flattened body, and a long, slender post- abdomen formed of six
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • UNDERPLOT
    1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • FREEDSTOOL
    See FRIDSTOL
  • 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,
  • AGROSTOLOGIST
    One skilled in agrostology.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • TESTIFICATION
    The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
  • POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
    Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
  • BURINIST
    One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • 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.
  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • THIRSTILY
    In a thirsty manner.

 

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