Word Meanings - FENNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.

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• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• SNAKE'S-HEAD
  The Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head. Dr. Prior. Snake's-head iris , an iridaceous plant (Hermodactylus tuberosus) of the Mediterranean region. The flowers slightly resemble
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• SNAKEHEAD
  1. A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car. The turtlehead. The Guinea-hen flower.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• INHABIT
  To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BOGGY
  Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
• SNAKEWEED
  A kind of knotweed . The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.
• INHABITRESS
  A female inhabitant.
• INHABITABLE
  Capable of being inhabited; habitable. Systems of inhabitable planets. Locke.
• SNAKEWOOD
  An East Indian climbing plant having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent. An East Indian climbing shrub which has the roots and stems twisted so as to resemble serpents. Same as Trumpetwood. A tropical
• SNAKEBIRD
  The wryneck. (more info) 1. Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills. Note: The American species inhabits
• SNAKE'S-TONGUE
  See ADDER'S-TONGUE
• SNAKESTONE
  An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake. (more info) 1. A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
• SNAKEFISH
  The band fish. The lizard fish.
• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• BEADSNAKE
  A small poisonous snake of North America , banded with yellow, red, and black.
• HOGNOSESNAKE
  A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• BLACK SNAKE; BLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other