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A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish

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A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish the angel fish . -- Mermaid's glove , a British branched sponge somewhat resembling a glove. -- Mermaid's head , a European spatangoid sea urchin having some resemblance to a skull. -- Mermaid weed , an aquatic herb with dentate or pectinate leaves .

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CREATURELY
  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• NYMPHOLEPSY
  A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• NYMPHALES
  An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.
• SIRENIAN
  Any species of Sirenia.
• MERMAID
  A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. Mermaid fish
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SIRENIA
  An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera. Note: The hind limbs are either rudimentary or wanting, and the front ones are changed to paddles. They have horny plates on the front
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• NYMPHAL
  Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.
• NYMPHLIKE; NYMPHLY
  Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.