Word Meanings - WEATHERCOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.

• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Showed
  of Show
• Showman
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• Turney
  Tourney.
• Turn-sick
  Giddy.
• Weatherboard
  That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Showroom
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
• Turnhalle
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• Turnsole
  A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
• Weather-board
  To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
• TURNBULLSBLUE
  The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Showing
  of Show

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