Word Meanings - BERYLLOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

• Double-decker
  A man-of-war having two gun decks.
• DOUBLEHUNG
  Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
• Double-quick
  Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
• SIDETAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• Occurse
  Same as Occursion.
• Sideboard
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
• Siderographist
  One skilled in siderography.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Sidewise
  On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Solidist
  An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.
• Consistently
  In a consistent manner.
• DOUBLEACTING
  Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.
• Double-dye
  To dye again or twice over.
• DOUBLELOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• Doubler
  One who, or that which, doubles.
• SIDEWHEEL
  Having a paddle wheel on each side; -- said of steam vessels; as, a side-wheel steamer.
• Occursion
  A meeting; a clash; a collision.
• Sidebone
  A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
• Siderography
  The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened

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