Word Meanings - NAVELWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A European perennial succulent herb , having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• SUCCULENT
  Full of juice; juicy. Succulent plants , plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• PENNYWORT
  A European trailing herb with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. See under March.
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• 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.
• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• CENTRAL; CENTRALE
  The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.