Word Meanings - WHIRL-BLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.
Related words: (words related to WHIRL-BLAST)
- WHIRLBONE
The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth. - WHIRLWIND
1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots - BLASTMENT
A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak. - BLAST
blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; - WHIRLBAT
Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden. - BLASTOSPHERE
The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note: - BLASTOPHORE
That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them. - BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
Of or pertaining to the blastoderm. - BLASTOMERE
One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour. - WHIRLIGIG
Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with - BLASTOIDEA
One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form. - WHIRL-BLAST
A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth. - BLASTOID
One of the Blastoidea. - BLASTOGENESIS
Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding. - BLASTED
1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth. - BLASTEMAL
Relating to the blastema; rudimentary. - BLASTY
1. Affected by blasts; gusty. 2. Causing blast or injury. Boyle. - WHIRLPOOL
1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular - BLASTOPORE
The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. Note: Balfour. - WHIRLPIT
A whirlpool. "Raging whirlpits." Sandys. - DIPLOBLASTIC
Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers. - NEMATOBLAST
A spermatocyte or spermoblast. - ABLASTEMIC
Non-germinal. - CNIDOBLAST
One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ. - MESOBLASTIC
Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer. - PARABLAST
A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot. - WHIRL
hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. He whirls his sword around without delay. Dryden. 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, - -BLAST
A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc. - OSTEOBLAST
One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast. - GYMNOBLASTIC
Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea. - HAEMATOBLAST
One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood - EPIBLASTIC
Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.