Word Meanings - CORDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.

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• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• CORDATELY
  In a cordate form.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEART-ROBBING
  1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
• HEART'S-EASE
  A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
• HEARTYHALE
  Good for the heart.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• SHAPER
  1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool,
• HEARTLESS
  1. Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster. 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing. 3. Destitute of
• SHAPELY
  1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to
• HEARTSEED
  A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.
• HEARTBURN
  An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
• SHAPOO
  The oörial.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• AWL-SHAPED
  Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.