a.
Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
Next Wordn.
The correspondence or resemblance of substances belonging to the same type or series; a similarity of composition varying by a small, regular difference, and usually attended by a regular variation in physical properties; as, there is an homology between methane, CH4, ethane, C2H6, propane, C3H8, etc., all members of the paraffin series. In an extended sense, the term is applied to the relation between chemical elements of the same group; as, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are said to be in homology with each other. Cf. Heterology. →
a.
Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. →
n.
The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. →
n.
Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table. →