Search the Dictionary

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U.S.]

Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

Having forethought. [R.]

See New thought, below.

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.

of Methinks.

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having but one flower; one-flowered. Gray.