Word Meanings - BEAR'S-BREECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.

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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• PARSNIP
  The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself. Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. -- Meadow parsnip,
• ACANTHUS
  A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• PRIORLY
  Previously. Geddes.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• PRIOR
  Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used (more info) compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and
• ENGLISH
  Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (more info) tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who
• WATER PARSNIP
  Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• GYRACANTHUS
  A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• COW PARSNIP
  A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).
• INDO-ENGLISH
  Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.
• BOROUGH-ENGLISH
  A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.