These are the meanings of the letters NOCTILUCAE when you unscramble them.
- Inculcate (v. t.)
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
- Inoculate (v. i.)
To communicate disease by inoculation.
- Inoculate (v. i.)
To graft by inserting buds.
- Inoculate (v. t.)
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
- Inoculate (v. t.)
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
- Inoculate (v. t.)
To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
- Inoculate (v. t.)
To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
- Noctiluca (n.)
A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucae.
- Noctiluca (n.)
That which shines at night; -- a fanciful name for phosphorus.