Word Meanings - BEWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.

• Thallene
  A hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar residues, and remarkable for its intense yellowish green fluorescence.
• Theocrat
  One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Thermochemistry
  That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
• Thryfallow
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
• Thin-skinned
  Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
• THERIACTHERIACA
  An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.
• Thanatoid
  Deathlike; resembling death.
• Thomism
  Alt. of Thomaism
• Theologist
  A theologian.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• Thermometer
  An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
• Thumbscrew
  A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
• Thiosulphate
  A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
• THERMOMOTOR
  A heat engine; a hot-air engine.
• Thanksgiving
  The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
• Thoracoplasty
  A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
• Theophilanthropic
  Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.
• Threshing
  of Thresh
• Thermotical
  Of or pertaining to heat; produced by heat; as, thermotical phenomena.

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