Word Meanings - BINDWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed ; the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells
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A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed ; the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.
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The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - WHITECAP
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To grow or become rough. - WHITE FLY
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imp. of Reach. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - ROUGHHEWN
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A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
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The golden-eye. - BLACKEN
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Rowen. - WHITE-EAR
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heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - SCALLION
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Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - FRANKFORT BLACK
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