Word Meanings - BEESWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

• Keepership
  The office or position of a keeper.
• Seconded
  of Second
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• Shinning
  of Shin
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Shiningness
  Brightness.
• Crustalogy
  Crustaceology.
• Supposititious
  Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.
• Formalized
  of Formalize
• Tartarous
  Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
• Formicaroid
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridae or ant thrushes.
• FORMALIN
  An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.
• Formularize
  To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
• Keepsake
  Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
• Seconding
  of Second
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• Shindle
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Shinney
  The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
• Crustated
  Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.

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