Word Meanings - HALF-BLOODED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.
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- BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses. - PARENTHESIS
One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - 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 - PARENTATION
Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter. - STOCKER
One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - DIFFERENTIALLY
In the way of differentiation. - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - STOCKWORK
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - SHEEP'S-FOOT
A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer. - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - PARENT
1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. 2. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent - SHEEP-HEADED
Silly; simple-minded; stupid. Taylor - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SHEEPBITER
One who practices petty thefts. Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange. - DIFFERENTLY
In a different manner; variously. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - BEETLESTOCK
The handle of a beetle. - INDIFFERENTLY
In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to