Word Meanings - GLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

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• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• VALLEY
  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• WIDOWLY
  Becoming or like a widow.
• DAUGHTERLINESS
  The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
• WIDOW BIRD
  See BIRD
• DAUGHTER
  doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker,
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• WIDOWER
  A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.
• WIDOW
  1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. 2. To deprive of one who
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• NARROWNESS
  The condition or quality of being narrow.
• WIDOWERHOOD
  The state of being a widower.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• STEPDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GODDAUGHTER
  A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.