Word Meanings - COLICROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike . Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
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- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - YELLOW-GOLDS
A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson. - YELLOWTOP
A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - YELLOWFISH
A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - BITTERWEED
A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - BITTERSWEET
1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - BITTERS
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped. - BLAZING
Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. Blazing star. A comet. A brilliant center of attraction. A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - CALLER
1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - PARABOLICALLY
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola. - HEPPELWHITE
Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.