Word Meanings - VIVISECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - WHILES
1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - PHYSIOLOGICALLY
In a physiological manner. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - WHILERE
A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - PHYSIOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - WHILE
wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - ERSTWHILE
Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.