Word Meanings - TRYGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

Related words: (words related to TRYGON)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
  See ETC
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STACK
  1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• STUNNER
  1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• SHIRT WAIST
  A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
  Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• AGROSTOLOGIST
  One skilled in agrostology.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.