Word Meanings - FLUXIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• FLOW
  imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
• FLOWAGE
  An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
• FLOWERAGE
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.
• FLOWERING
  Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• FLOWERET
  A small flower; a floret. Shak.
• FLOWER-GENTLE
  A species of amaranth .
• WANTY
  A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• INFLOW
  To flow in. Wiseman.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• AFLOW
  Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.