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Word Meanings - RETROGRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive. (more info) 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

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  • GOAL
    Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
  • GOROON SHELL
    A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
  • PASS
    passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
  • GOOD-HUMORED
    Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
    An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
  • GOOSERY
    1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton.
  • GORGONIACEA
    One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • GOLDFINNY
    One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • GONOCALYX
    The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
  • GOPHER
    1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
  • DECLINATION
    The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
  • GOAF
    That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace
  • GORGEOUS
    Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
  • MOVER
    1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
  • HIGHER-UP
    A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • RUBIGO
    same as Rust, n., 2.
  • ISAGOGE
    An introduction. Harris.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • SYRINGOCOELE
    The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • AGOUARA
    The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • FULGOR
    Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne.
  • OSTROGOTHIC
    Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.

 

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