Word Meanings - DANCERESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female dancer. Wyclif.

DANCER
One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
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
DANCERESS
A female dancer. Wyclif.
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.
WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
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
ROPEDANCER
One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.