Word Meanings - WHISTLEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.

• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREEFLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• THREEWAY
  Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• THREELOBED
  Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.

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