Word Meanings - SHOVEL-NOSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SHOVELARD
  Shoveler.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• NOSLE
  Nozzle.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• NOSOLOGY
  1. A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
• BROADBILL
  A wild duck , which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; - - called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
• BROADLY
  In a broad manner.
• NOSEL
  To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle. If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SHOVELNOSE
  The common sand shark. See under Snad. A small California shark , which is taken for its oil. A Pacific Ocean shark . A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• NOSOPHOBIA
  Morbid dread of disease.
• NOSTOC
  A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance. Note: Nostoc commune is found on the ground, and is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous jellylike mass, whish was
• BROAD-BRIMMED
  Having a broad brim. A broad-brimmed flat silver plate. Tatler.
• BROADCAST
  1. Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused. 2. Scattering in all directions ; -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
• SHOVEL-NOSED
  Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BROAD CHURCH
  A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied
• BROADBRIM
  1. A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends. 2. A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker.
• TENOSYNOVITIS
  Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• ADENOSCLEROSIS
  The hardening of a gland.
• VINOSE
  Vinous.
• MONOSTROPHIC
  Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• MINOS
  A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
• SIPHONOSTOMATOUS
  Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods. Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
• EMPROSTHOTONOS
  A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• COGNOSCENCE
  Cognizance. Dr. H. More.