Word Meanings - MAXILLIPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.

• THREESIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• 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.
• Loweringly
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• Situate
  Alt. of Situated
• Threepenny
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• 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.
• THREESQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Lowermost
  Lowest.
• Situated
  Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.
• Three-pile
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
• THREECOLOR
  Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Situation
  Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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