Word Meanings - BERGMEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

WHITELIVERED
Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.
Infusoria
One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size.
Mixtilinear
Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
Substanceless
Having no substance; unsubstantial.
White-blaze
See White-face.
White-hot
White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
Whitethorn
The hawthorn.
Compositor
One who composes or sets in order.
TIMESIGNATURE
A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time uni
Flourishingly
In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
WHITEMUSTARD
A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
Infusorial
Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth.
Mixtion
Mixture.
Swedenborgian
One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through t
Whiteblow
Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
White-limed
Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
Whitethroat
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c
Compositous
Belonging to the Compositae; composite.
VARIETYSHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

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