Word Meanings - REMIGRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.

Related words: (words related to REMIGRATION)

• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• PLACENTIFEROUS
  Having or producing a placenta.
• PLACENTATION
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• PLACE-PROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
• PLACEFUL
  In the appointed place.
• PLACENTAL
  Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
• PLACENTIFORM
  Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
• PLACET
  1. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc. 2. The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. Shipley. The king . . . annulled the royal placet. J. P. Peters.
• PLACENTALIA
  A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• IMMIGRATION
  The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.
• INTERMIGRATION
  Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. Sir M. Hale.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• TRANSMIGRATION
  1. The act of passing from one country to another; migration. 2. The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• DEMIGRATION
  Emigration. Bp. Hall.
• BY-PLACE
  A retired or private place.
• REMIGRATION
  Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.
• SELF-COMPLACENCY
  The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.