Word Meanings - PRISMATICPRISMATICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Same as Orthorhombic. Prismatic borax (Chem.), borax crystallized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; -- distinguished from octahedral borax. -- Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors. See Primary colors, under Color. -- Prismatic compass (Surv.), a compass having a prism for viewing a distant object and the compass card at the same time. -- Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.

• Passant
  Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
• Water cure
  Hydropathy.
• Underclothes
  Clothes worn under others, especially those worn next the skin for warmth.
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• Underrate
  To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.
• UNDERTIDEUNDERTIME
  The under or after part of the day; undermeal; evening. [Obs.] He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw. Spenser.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Compassionateness
  The quality or state of being compassionate.
• WATERWING
  One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current.
• Passiflora
  A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Underdo
  To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• Undersheriffry
  Undershrievalty.
• WATERBEECH
  The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Distinguishedly
  In a distinguished manner.
• Passiveness
  The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Underfringe
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.

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