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dentinal tubules(medicine)
dentinal sheath(medicine)
dentinal papilla(medicine)
dentinal fluid(medicine)
dentinal canals(medicine)
Wreck(medicine)
wreck(1)(dictionary)
wreck(2)(dictionary)
wreck(3)(dictionary)

wreck(2) (iou) and Dentinal (medicine)


wreck(2) (iou)



wreck noun1. ME.
[Anglo-Norman wrec from Old Norse (Norwegian, Icelandic rek), from verb meaning 'drive' repr. also in WREAK verb.]
I. Concrete senses.
a. Law. Cargo, or a piece of wreckage, washed ashore from a wrecked or stranded vessel. Also wreck of the sea. ME.
W. Blackstone If any persons..take any goods so cast on shore, which are not legal wreck.
b. gen. = WRECKAGE 2. M18.
a. = WRACK noun2 3. Now chiefly Scot. & north. LME.
b. = WRACK noun2 3b. Scot. & dial. M18.
A ship that has been wrecked; the remains of such a vessel. L15.
C. Francis Even large natural harbours..are littered with wrecks of ships which..ran on the rocks.
A tossed-up or confused mass; a large quantity. Now north. E17.
a. The battered residue or wretched remains of a thing which or person who has suffered ruin, destruction, debilitating disease, etc. E18.
M. Arnold There he was joined by the wreck of the consul's army. F. C. Selous All the Portuguese here were mere wrecks of menfrail, yellow, and fever-stricken.
b. A ruined or dilapidated building, vehicle, etc.; a person whose Health, strength, etc., has totally broken down. L18.
NERVOUS wreck.
B. A. Mason Steve is a wreck, still half drunk. Best The front of my car was completely gone, it was a wreck.
= WRACK noun1 4. L18.
II. Abstract senses.
The destruction or complete disablement of a ship at sea; an instance of this. LME.
C. Wilkes In leaving the harbour we had a narrow escape from wreck.
b. gen. Physical destruction or demolition. E18.
c. A road or rail crash. N. Amer. E20.
d. The death of a large number of pelagic or migrating birds, usu. as the result of a storm at sea. M20.
fig. The downfall or overthrow of an established order of things, a system, etc.; an instance of this. Freq. in go to wreck (and ruin). M16.
Conan Doyle What brought all his wicked scheme to wreck was your discovery of..Heidegger's dead body. I. Murdoch I had not..enjoyed observing the wreck of my brother's Marriage.
Comb.: wreckfish a fish that frequents wrecks; spec. the stone-bass, Polyprion americanus; wreck-fishing fishing in the vicinity of a wreck; wreck master an officer appointed to take charge of goods etc. cast up from a wrecked ship; wreck-wood wood washed ashore from a wreck.
wreckfree adjective (Law, now Hist.) exempt from forfeiture of shipwrecked cargo or vessels ME.

Dentinal (medicine)


dentinal


Relating to dentin.