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Word Meanings - HORDEIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.

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  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • BARLEY-BREE
    Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • PECULIARNESS
    The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
  • COMPLEXIONALLY
    Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
  • COMPLEXUS
    A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
  • BARLEYCORN
    1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
  • PECULIARLY
    In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • PECULIAR
    1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
  • COMPLEXIONED
    Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
  • COMPLEXEDNESS
    The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • COMPLEXNESS
    The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • MATTER-OF-FACT
    Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • MATTERY
    1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
  • BARLEY
    A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird , the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction
  • MIXTURE
    A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
  • BORDEAUX MIXTURE
    A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
  • SELF-CONTAINED
    Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
  • DISCOMPLEXION
    To change the complexion or hue of. Beau. & Fl.
  • INTERMIXTURE
    1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
  • SMATTERING
    A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.

 

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