Word Meanings - SHINNEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

• 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.
• RECEIVERSCERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that of b
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

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