Word Meanings - SIXTY-FOURTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

BEARSPAW
A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
Thick-knee
A stone curlew. See under Stone.
Bevy
A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
Bell jar
A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keepin
Beclap
To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
THERAPEUTICTHERAPEUTICAL
Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therap
Thorax
The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
Thallium
A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air
Beneficently
In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
Beechnut
The nut of the beech tree.
Threste
of Threste
Theodolite
An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed.
Berm
Alt. of Berme
Begrudging
of Begrudge
Thunderproof
Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.
Bestraddle
To bestride.
Bespitting
of Bespit
Beambird
A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.
BECKSSCALE
A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30Âº-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length.
Thienyl
The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.

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