Word Meanings - PADDLEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

• BILLETDOUX
  A love letter or note. A lover chanting out a billet-doux. Spectator.
• Billet-doux
  A love letter or note.
• Billowing
  of Billow
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Founder
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• Large-acred
  Possessing much land.
• Shapely
  Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
• BILLPOSTERBILLSTICKER
  One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.
• Billethead
  A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
• Billowy
  Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Foundered
  of Founder
• Large-handed
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Shaper
  One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
• BILLYCOCKBILLYCOCKHAT
  A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain. Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. Charles Reade.
• Billfish
  A name applied to several distinct fishes
• Billposter
  Alt. of Billsticker

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