A New Random Definition Added Every Hour. Word Meaning Unlocks Concepts and Ideas, Web and Text Mining, Reference, Value, Knowledge Discovery, Creativity, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Ideas http://www.conceptexplore.com/feed.xml en-us Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:30:01 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com founder@conceptexplore.com Endosmometer (?), n. [Endosmose + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Endosmometer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com maillot n. A woman's one-piece bathing suit. Syn. -- tank suit. [WordNet 1.5] 2. for dancers or gymnasts. [WordNet 1.5] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=maillot Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Scapement (?), n. [See Scape, v., Escapement.] Same as Escapement, 3. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Scapement Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Piquancy (?), n. [See Piquant.] The quality or state of being piquant. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Piquancy Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Caryophyllin (?), n. (Chem.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Caryophyllin Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com handwritten, hand-written adj. written by hand. Syn. -- handwritten. [WordNet 1.5] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=handwritten Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Intertranspicuous (?), a. Transpicuous within or between. [R.] Shelley. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Intertranspicuous Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Grain (grn), n. [See Groin a part of the body.] [ Webster] 1. A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. [Obs.] G. Douglas. [ Webster] 2. A tine, prong, or fork. Specifically: (a) One the branches of a valley or of a river. (b) pl. An iron fish spear or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. [ Webster] 3. A blade of a sword, knife, etc. [ Webster] 4. (Founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Grain Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com circulating adj. 1. moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones. [WordNet 1.5] 2. passing from one to another. [prenominal] [WordNet 1.5] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=circulating Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Nestful (?), n.; pl. Nestfuls (). As much or many as will fill a nest. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Nestful Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Acajou (), n. [F. See Cashew.] (Bot.) (a) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew. (b) The mahogany tree; also, its timber. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Acajou Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Equatorial, n. (Astron.) An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope. [ Webster] The term equatorial, or equatorial instrument, is sometimes applied to any astronomical instrument which has its principal axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the earth. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Equatorial Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com { Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolite, } a. 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. [ Webster] In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton. [ Webster] 2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. [ Webster] The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. R. Owen. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Cosmopolitan Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Etch (?), n. A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Etch Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com patched (pcht) adj. 1. Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; as, patched jeans. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 2. [p. p. of patch, v. t..] Partly covered; as, The field was patched with ice and snow. [WordNet 1.5] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=patched Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Fraction, v. t. (Chem.) To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Fraction Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Meritorious (?), a. [L. meritorius that brings in money.] Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. [ Webster] And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. [ Webster] -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Meritorious Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Shock, v. i. To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. They saw the moment approach when the two parties would shock together. De Quincey. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Shock Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:30:04 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Imaginational (?), a. Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Imaginational Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Glazier (?), n. [From Glaze.] One whose business is to set glass. [ Webster] Glazier's diamond. See under Diamond. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Glazier Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com { historic (hstrk), historical (hstrkl), } a. [L. historicus, Gr. istorikos: cf. F. historique. See History.] Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- Historicalness, n. -- Historicity (#), n. [ Webster] There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. [ Webster] 2. having once lived, existed, or taken place in the real world; -- contrasted with legendary; as, the historical Jesus; doubt that a historical Camelot every existed; actual historical events. [WordNet 1.5] 3. Belonging to the past; as, historical (or historic) times; a historical character. [WordNet 1.5] 4. Within the period of time recorded in written documents; as, within historic times. Opposite of prehistoric. Syn. -- diachronic. [WordNet 1.5] 5. (Linguistics) Same as diachronic. synchronic [WordNet 1.5] Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. -- The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=historic Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:30:02 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Workman (?), n.; pl. Workmen (#). [AS. weorcmann.] [ Webster] 1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. [ Webster] 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Workman Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:30:04 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Paroccipital (?), a. [Pref. para- + occipital.] (Anat.) Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Paroccipital Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:03 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com Circumdenudation (?), n. [Pref. circum- + denudation.] (Geol.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. [ Webster] Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes. [ Webster] http://www.conceptexplore.com/headword_search.pl?query=Circumdenudation Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:30:01 -0400 founder@conceptexplore.com