Word Meanings - DINOSAURIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.

Pelvis
The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.
Presentiment
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
Product
Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
Calligraphic
Alt. of Calligraphical
Three-ply
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
Callosities
of Callosity
Walkyr
See Valkyria.
Illustrating
of Illustrate
THREECOAT
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.
Largeness
The quality or state of being large.
THREESIDED
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Present
Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
Presentimental
Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
Productibility
The state of being productible; producibility.
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.
Calligraphical
Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
Three-pointed
Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
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.
Whence
From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.

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Word Meanings - DINOSAURIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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