Word Meanings - WAGON-HEADED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus as, a wagonheaded ceiling.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INVERTASE
  An enzyme capable of effecting the inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals. By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• 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.
• INVERTIN
  An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• INVERTEDLY
  In an inverted order. Derham.
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• CONESTOGA WAGON; CONESTOGA WAIN
  A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.
• AWL-SHAPED
  Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.