Word Meanings - TRACHEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.

ILLUSTROUS
Without luster.
ILLUSTRIOUS
1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
ILLUSTRATIVELY
By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
ILLUSTRATIVE
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
ILLUSTRATION
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
WINDPIPE
The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
ILLUSTRIOUSLY
In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
ILLUSTRATE
1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
ILLUSTRATOR
One who illustrates.
ILLUSTRABLE
Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.
ILLUSTRATORY
Serving to illustrate.