Word Meanings - SUBCLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

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• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• DIVIDUOUS
  Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• ANGIOSPERMOUS
  Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• DIVIDINGLY
  By division.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• DIVIDUALLY
  By dividing.
• DIVIDUAL
  Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.
• DIVIDANT
  Different; distinct. Shak.
• NATURALISM
  The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
• NATURALLY
  In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• SUPERNATURAL
  Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
• SUPERNATURALISM
  The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.