Word Meanings - THWARTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

• Sheepshank
  A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.
• SHEEPSFOOT
  A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer.
• Indicator
  One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
• Sheepback
  A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural.
• Sheepshead
  A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, / Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.
• SHEEPSHEARER
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• Indicatory
  Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.
• Indicatrix
  A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to t
• Sheepberry
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• Sheep-shearer
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• Convulsive
  Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
• Sheepbite
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• Convulsively
  in a convulsive manner.
• Sheepbiter
  One who practices petty thefts.
• Sheepskin
  The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

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