Word Meanings - GNOMONICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

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• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• DIALYZATE
  The material subjected to dialysis.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• GNOMONOLOGY
  A treatise on gnomonics.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• DIALOGIZE
  To discourse in dialogue. Fotherby.
• DIALYSIS
  Diæresis. See Diæresis,
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• DIALYZATION
  The act or process of dialysis.
• DIALECTAL
  Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
• DIALOGITE
  Native carbonate of manganese; rhodochrosite.
• DIALOGICALLY
  In the manner or nature of a dialogue. Goldsmith.
• CONSTRUCTIVE
  1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
• DIALYTIC
  Having the quality of unloosing or separating. Clarke. Dialytic telescope, an achromatic telescope in which the colored dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses,
• DIALLEL
  Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel. Ash.
• GNOMONICS
  The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
• DIALLAGE
  A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
• DIALLYL
  A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.
• CONSTRUCTION
  The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• EPICEDIAL
  Elegiac; funereal.
• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• SUPERMEDIAL
  Above the middle.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• SPORADIAL
  Sporadic.
• RADIAL ENGINE
  An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
• SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
  See ABOVE
• EPIPODIALE
  One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.
• ALLODIALLY
  By allodial tenure.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• PSEUDOPODIAL
  Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.
• PROSODIAL
  Prosodical.
• MEDIALUNA
  See HALF-MOON
• STAPEDIAL
  Of or pertaining to stapes.
• CORRADIAL
  Radiating to or from the same point. Coleridge.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.