Word Meanings - SCAPHOLUNAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. -- n.

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• LUNAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations. 2. Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden. 3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month. 4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar
• SCAPHOID
  Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped. -- n.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• CARPUS
  The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• LUNARY
  Lunar. Fuller.
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• LUNARIAN
  An inhabitant of the moon.
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• SEMILUNAR
  Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone , a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves , the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the
• SUBLUNAR; SUBLUNARY
  Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly. All things sublunary are subject to change. Dryden. All sublunary comforts imitate the changeableness, as well as feel the influence, of the planet they are
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• INTERLUNAR; INTERLUNARY
  Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.
• PLENILUNARY
  Of or pertaining to the full moon. Sir T. Browne.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.
• DIPTEROCARPUS
  A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
• CROSSBONES
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
• SUBLUNARY
  Any worldly thing.
• SUPRALUNAR; SUPRALUNARY
  Beyond the moon; hence, very lofty.
• SEMILUNARY
  Semilunar.