Word Meanings - SATURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra , anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• TERRAPIN
  Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin , native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also potter, slider, and redfender), and
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• TERRAS
  See
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• CONTERRANEAN; CONTERRANEOUS
  Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• SUBTERRANE
  A cave or room under ground. J. Bryant.