Word Meanings - USBEGSUSBEKS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Turkish tribe which about the close of the 15th century conquered, and settled in, that part of Asia now called Turkestan. [Written also Uzbecks, and Uzbeks.]

• CLOSEBANDED
  Closely united.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• 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.
• Closehauled
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• Conqueror
  One who conquers.
• CLOSEBARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Closely
  In a close manner.
• Settle
  A seat of any kind.
• CLOSEBODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Closemouthed
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• Settled
  of Settle
• CLOSEFIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
• About-sledge
  The largest hammer used by smiths.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.

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