Word Meanings - BITTERWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.

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• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• AMBROSIA BEETLE
  A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.
• AMBROSIA
  The fabled food of the gods , which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton. 2. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
• AMBROSIAN
  Ambrosial. . Jonson.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• ROMANIST
  One who adheres to Romanism.
• ROMANCY
  Romantic.
• ROMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. 2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal,
• ROMANIZER
  One who Romanizes.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• ROMANIZE
  1. To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. Dryden. 2. To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.
• ROMAN CALENDAR
  The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived. It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total
• ROMANESQUE
  Romanesque style.
• ROMANSCH
  The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
• ROMANTICLY
  Romantically. Strype.
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• HIEROMANCY
  Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
• PYROMANCY
  Divination by means of fire.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• ALEUROMANCY
  Divination by means of flour. Encyc. Brit.
• METROMANIA
  A mania for writing verses.
• GRECO-ROMAN
  Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.
• GYROMANCY
  A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.