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Word Meanings - SUBOVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • OVATED
    Ovate.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SECTIONALITY
    The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
  • INFERIORLY
    In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
  • SECTIONALIZE
    To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SECTIONALISM
    A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
  • SECTIONIZE
    To form into sections.
  • 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.
  • INFERIORITY
    The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • OVATE-ACUMINATE
    Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
  • NEARLY
    In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
  • OVATE-OBLONG
    Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • OBOVATE
    Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
  • RENOVATE
    To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INNOVATE
    1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • OBLONG-OVATE
    Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
  • BISECTION
    Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
  • ANTIVIVISECTIONIST
    One opposed to vivisection

 

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