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