Word Meanings - THIGMOTAXIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance. When the movement is away from the touching body, it is negative thigmotaxis; when towards it, positive thigmotaxis.

• Livery stable
  A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).
• Possessed
  of Possess
• Solidago
  A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.
• Solidungular
  Solipedous.
• Touch-needle
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• Fluidal
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
• SOLIDDRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• Liveliness
  The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
• Livelode
  Course of life; means of support; livelihood.
• Moving
  of Move
• Possessing
  of Possess
• Solidare
  A small piece of money.
• Solidungulate
  Same as Soliped.
• Touch-paper
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• Fluidized
  of Fluidize
• THIGMOTAXIS
  The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance. When the movement is away from the touching body, it is negative thigmotaxis; when towards it, positive thigmotaxis.
• Livelong
  Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
• Lividity
  The state or quality of being livid.

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