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Word Meanings - SUCTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.

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  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • LIVINGNESS
    The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
  • LIVED
    Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • LIVE
    liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
  • HUMMEL
    To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • LIVERWORT
    1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • SUCKATASH
    See BARTLETT
  • HUMMER
    A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
  • SUCKFISH
    A sucker fish.
  • LIVERY
    gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
  • LIVER-GROWN
    Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
  • LIVE-FOREVER
    A plant with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
  • HUMMOCKY
    Abounding in hummocks.
  • LIVERING
    A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. Chapman.
  • HUMMOCKING
    The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
  • LIVERIED
    Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • THUMMIE
    The chiff-chaff.
  • OLIVARY
    Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
  • OLIVINE
    A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
  • COD LIVER
    The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • REDELIVERY
    1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
  • DELIVERABLE
    Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
  • HONEYSUCKLE
    One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
  • GOATSUCKER
    One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat

 

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