Word Meanings - THUMBLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without a thumb. Darwin.

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• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• THUMBKIN
  An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• THUMBED
  1. Having thumbs. 2. Soiled by handling.
• THUMB
  The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• THUMBBIRD
  The goldcrest.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
• THUMBSCREW
  1. A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger. 2. An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• BETHUMB
  To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.
• NORTHUMBRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. -- n.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• HOP-O'-MY-THUMB; HOP-THUMB
  A very diminutive person. liwell.
• HOP-THUMB
  See HOP-O'-MY-THUMB
• TEAR-THUMB
  A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
• LADY'S THUMB
  An annual weed , having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.