Word Meanings - ARBOREOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• GROWAN
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• GROWER
  One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• GROW
  1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
• ARBOREOUS
  1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.