Word Meanings - TROCHILIDIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.
Related words: (words related to TROCHILIDIST)
- VERSET
A verse. Milton. - HUMMEL
To separate from the awns; -- said of barley. - VERSEMAN
See PRIOR - VERSABLENESS
Versability. - VERS DE SOCIETE
See SOCIETY - HUMMER
A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth. - VERST
A Russian measure of length containing 3,500 English feet. - VERSAL
Universal. Shak. - VERSUTE
Crafty; wily; cunning; artful. - VERSOR
The turning factor of a quaternion. Note: The change of one vector into another is considered in quaternions as made up of two operations; 1st, the rotation of the first vector so that it shall be parallel to the second; 2d, the change of length - HUMMOCKY
Abounding in hummocks. - HUMMOCKING
The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane. - VERSANT
Familiar; conversant. Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith. - VERSATILITY
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness. - VERSABLE
Capable of being turned. - TROCHILIDIST
One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould. - VERSIONIST
One who makes or favors a version; a translator. - NATURED
Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc. - VERSEMONGER
A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt. - VERSIFICATION
The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition. - CONTROVERSER
A disputant. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - UNIVERSITY
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having - AVERSENESS
The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness. - OVERSHOT
From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly - THUMMIE
The chiff-chaff. - REVERSION
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after - ESTOVERS
Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's - DIVERS
directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various; - CONTROVERSAL
1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - RENVERSEMENT
A reversing. - CONVERSIVE
1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - AVERSATION
A turning from with dislike; aversion. Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor. - OVERSHOOT
1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.