Word Meanings - LEVERWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The American hop hornbeam , a small tree with very tough wood.

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• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• AMERICANIZE
  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• TOUGHISH
  Tough in a slight degree.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ANTI-AMERICAN
  Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.
• PAN-AMERICAN
  Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS
  various American states; esp.: One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.