Word Meanings - MOWBURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.
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- GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - FERMENTABLE
Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - FERMENT
fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - HOUSLING
Sacramental; as, housling fire. Spenser. - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - HOUSING
A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline. - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - GREENBACKER
One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - GREENGAGE
A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. - GREENROOM
The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. - DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - CATARRHOUS
Catarrhal. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - POLYMORPHOUS
Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed to monomorphic. (more info) 1. Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. De Quincey. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell. - ANTHROPOMORPHOUS
Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.