Word Meanings - CAPILLAIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties. 2. Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.
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- ORANGEADE
A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - SIRUPY; SYRUPY
Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer. - MAIDENLINESS
The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness. - PREPARATIVELY
By way of preparation. - FLAVORED
Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine. - ORANGE
Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon. - FLAVORLESS
Without flavor; tasteless. - ORANGEISM
Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen. - ORANGEMAN
One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; - MAIDEN
fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad, Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. - ORANGETAWNY
Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak. - SUPPOSURE
Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras. - SIMPLE-MINDED
Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n. - SIMPLETON
A person of weak intellect; a silly person. - MAIDENSHIP
Maidenhood. Fuller. - SUPPOSABLE
Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv. - SIRUPED; SYRUPED
Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice. - MAIDENHOOD
1. The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak. 2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state. The maidenhood Of thy fight. Shak. - MAIDENHAIR
A fern of the genus Adiantum , having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair. Maiden grass, the smaller - HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - SEA ORANGE
A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. - UNMAIDEN
To ravish; to deflower. - SIMPLE
simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded - DISPREPARE
To render unprepared. Hobbes.