Word Meanings - TETRABRANCHIATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.

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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
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• 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.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• 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
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• 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
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• 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;
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• 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.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.