Word Meanings - BRANCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• 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.
• BRANCHY
  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• 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;
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• GLOOMILY
  In a gloomy manner.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between