Word Meanings - SHOULDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the

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The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore The gates of Azza. Milton. Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. Dryden. 3. Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support. In thy shoulder do I build my seat. Shak. 4. That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing. The north western shoulder of the mountain. Sir W. Scott. 5. The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton. (more info) akin to D. schoulder, G. schulter, OHG. scultarra, Dan. skulder, Sw.

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• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• FORME
  See PATTé
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• FORMEDON
  A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• BIFORM
  Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
• VILLIFORM
  Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.