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Word Meanings - WHIRL-BLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.

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  • 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.

 

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