navel
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Is navel a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of navel?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
2. (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.historical
verb (English)
1. (literary and poetic) To be in the middle of a landscape.Examples: "Lo, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills / So far, that the uprooting wind which tears / The oak from his foundation, and which spills / The ocean o’er its boundary, and bears / Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares / The oval mirror of thy glassy lake; […]"; "Within the shade a ruined temple stands / To sight conspicuous, navelled in the pines, / Speaking of Grecian art, since Vandal hands / Defaced her structures, and despoiled her shrines."; "I rejoice as I call back those pleasant times, when in the casement of our seminary, I rested my telescope on my shut-up Virgil, and looked off among the far-off hills in the lap of which the edifice was naveled, and saw the pretty girls of the farm-houses, […]"literarypoetic
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