Word Meanings - STORMWIND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

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• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
• STORMING
  from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress.
• STORM
  A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging,
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• STORMGLASS
  A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• BLASTOMERE
  One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
• BLASTOIDEA
  One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• BLASTOID
  One of the Blastoidea.
• BLASTOGENESIS
  Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
• BLASTED
  1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
• BLASTEMAL
  Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
• BLASTY
  1. Affected by blasts; gusty. 2. Causing blast or injury. Boyle.
• BLASTOPORE
  The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. Note: Balfour.
• STORMILY
  In a stormy manner.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• PARABLAST
  A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.
• -BLAST
  A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
• OSTEOBLAST
  One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
• GYMNOBLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
• HAEMATOBLAST
  One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood
• EPIBLASTIC
  Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.