Word Meanings - LINSANG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.

• Crossnath
  To shade by means of crosshatching.
• BLACKDEATH
  A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Cross-question
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
• BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other bl
• Broadax Broadaxe
  An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.
• Crossway
  See Crossroad.
• CROSSBEARER
  A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
• Broadly
  In a broad manner.
• Inhabitate
  To inhabit.
• CROSSPURPOSE
  A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.
• Brownian
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.
• Southerner
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• WHITEEAR
  The wheatear.
• Commonish
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• Whiteboy
  A favorite.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• Black book
  One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
• Cross-armed
  With arms crossed.
• White-livered
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.

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