Word Meanings - ATLANTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

• Applicancy
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Oceanology
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• AMERICANPLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• Applicant
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.
• Basined
  Inclosed in a basin.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Oceanus
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• AMERICANPROTECTIVEASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• African
  Of or pertaining to Africa.
• Applicate
  Applied or put to some use.
• Basinet
  Same as Bascinet.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Pertained
  of Pertain
• ATLASPOWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
• Africander
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

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