Word Meanings - BESPANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• GRASS
  An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• BRILLIANTINE
  1. An oily composition used to make the hair glossy. 2. A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality.
• GRASSY
  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green.
• GRASS TREE
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• SPRINKLER
  1. One who sprinkles. 2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
• BRILLIANTNESS
  Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.
• ADORN
  To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place.
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• GRASSATION
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. Feltham.
• GRASSINESS
  The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• QUITCH GRASS
  A perennial grass having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. (more info) from
• ALFA ; ALFA GRASS
  A plant of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• BROME GRASS
  A genus of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
• BENT GRASS
  See GRASS
• CUTGRASS
  A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.
• BURGRASS
  Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.