Word Meanings - KALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, 2. See Kail, 2. Sea kale , a European cruciferous herb (Crambe maritima), often used as a pot herb; sea cabbage.

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• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MARITIMAL; MARITIMALE
  See MARITIME
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• CRUCIFEROUS
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. (more info) 1. Bearing a cross.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• VARIETY
  1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
• OFTENTIDE
  Frequently; often. Robert of Brunne.
• EUROPEANIZE
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
• CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question.
• SOFTENING
  from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,
• SEA CABBAGE
  See KALE
• SOFTEN
  To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.