Word Meanings - BELEMNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.

• Pointel
  See Pointal.
• 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.
• Prolonge
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• Chamberer
  One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
• Relator
  One who relates; a relater.
• Delicateness
  The quality of being delicate.
• Shellproof
  Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
• Founding
  of Found
• Thunderstone
  A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone.
• Internality
  The state of being internal or within; interiority.
• Whereso
  Wheresoever.
• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• BROKENWIND
  The heaves.
• Broken wind
  The heaves.
• Perfectionism
  The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
• POINTDEVICEPOINTDEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Pointer
  One who, or that which, points.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.

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