Word Meanings - CHANTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female chanter or singer. Milton.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• CHANTERELLE
  A name for several species of mushroom, of which one is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SINGERESS
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SINGER
  One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: One employed to singe cloth. A machine for singeing cloth.
• CHANTER
  The hedge sparrow. (more info) 1. One who chants; a singer or songster. Pope. 2. The chief singer of the chantry. J. Gregory. 3. The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• TROCHANTER
  One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• TROCHANTERIC
  Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• HISINGERITE
  A soft black, iron ore, nearly earthy, a hydrous silicate of iron.
• DISENCHANTER
  One who, or that which, disenchants.
• SUBCHANTER
  An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.
• ANTITROCHANTER
  An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.
• UNDERCHANTER
  See SUBCHANTER
• INTERTROCHANTERIC
  Between the trochanters of the femur.
• MEISTERSINGER
  See MASTERSINGER