Word Meanings - BERTILLONSYSTEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

• Basilisk
  A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
• Thumbless
  Without a thumb.
• BASKETBALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• Bass drum
  The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• Bass-relief
  Some as Bas-relief.
• Bastinade
  See Bastinado, n.
• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Bashaw
  A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
• Impressionability
  The quality of being impressionable.
• Basigynium
  The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• Systematizing
  of Systematize
• Thumbscrew
  A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
• Basket
  A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
• BASKINGSHARK
  One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmle
• Basset
  A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
• COLORSERGEANT
  See under Sergeant.

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