Word Meanings - HIBERNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great
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To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.
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- GERMINATE
To cause to sprout. Price . - DECAYER
A causer of decay. - WITHER-WRUNG
Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse. - WITHERED
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - WITHERS
The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr. - WITHERNAM
A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in - WITHER
Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. - DECAY
To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; - WITHERBAND
A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow. - WITHERING
Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv. - BLIGHT
as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. blasts vegetables, blights - VEGETATE
To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. (more info) 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life - HIBERNATE
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great - BLIGHTING
Causing blight. - WITHERLING
A withered person; one who is decrepit. Chapman. - DECAYED
Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n. - BLIGHTINGLY
So as to cause blight. - WITHERITE
Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses. - SPROUT
spruiten, G. spriessen, Sw. spruta to squirt, to spout. Cf. Sprit, v. 1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. 2. To shoot into ramifications. Bacon. - PULLULATE
To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton. - INGERMINATE
To cause to germinate. - REPULLULATE
To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. - PREDECAY
Premature decay. - EGERMINATE
To germinate. - REVEGETATE
To vegetate anew.