Word Meanings - VALVELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
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- OUTER
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump - VALVE-SHELL
Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - OUTERLY
1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - PERICARP
The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - VALVULE
A small valvelike process. (more info) 1. A little valve; a valvelet. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - VALVELET
A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - COVERCHIEF
A covering for the head. Chaucer. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - COVERTLY
Secretly; in private; insidiously. - INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - SHOUTER
One who shouts. - SOUTER
A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale. - PILOT VALVE
A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. - MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - FLOUTER
One who flouts; a mocker. - PLOUTER
To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling. - TOUTER
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.