Word Meanings - DRUMMONDLIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light. Note: The name is also applied sometimes to a heliostat, invented by Drummond, for rendering visible a distant point, as in geodetic surveying, by reflecting upon it a beam of light from the sun.

• Otherways
  See Otherwise.
• Turnix
  Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical cha
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Oxygenizing
  of Oxygenize
• Turnus
  A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind w
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Pointlessly
  Without point.
• LIGHTHEARTED
  Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.
• Geodetically
  In a geodetic manner; according to geodesy.
• Production
  The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
• 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.
• Intensely
  Intently.
• Rendering
  of Render
• Inventoried
  of Inventory
• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• Lighterman
  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
• Streamful
  Abounding in streams, or in water.
• Alcoholometry
  The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
• Light-minded
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
• Turning
  of Turn

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