Word Meanings - SPINESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.
Related words: (words related to SPINESCENT)
- ARM-GRET
Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer. - ARMADA
A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558. - TAPERED
Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. T. Warton. - ARMORY
fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. 1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory - ARMILLARY
Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - RIGID
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - RIGIDLY
In a rigid manner; stiffly. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - ARMOZEEN; ARMOZINE
A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds. - ARMORED
Clad with armor. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - ARMAMENTARY
An armory; a magazine or arsenal. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - ARMLET
1. A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea. Johnson. 2. An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm. 3. Armor for the arm. - ARMORED CRUISER
A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first - ARMADO
Armada. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - ARMY
1. A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers. 2. A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army. 3. A - WARMTH
The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; - BABY FARMING
The business of keeping a baby farm. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - CARMINIC
Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3. - DISARM
1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means - HARMLESS
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; - PHARMACY
pharmacie, Gr. 1. The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist. 2. A place where medicines - FIREARM
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - HARMONIZATION
The act of harmonizing. - FARMERESS
A woman who farms. - UNHARMONIOUS
Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. - GENDARMERY
The body of gendarmes. - FARMSTEAD
A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle. - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.