Word Meanings - PIGWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• ANNUALIST
  One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
• ANNUAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
• SEVERALITY
  Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
• SEVERALLY
  Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
• SEVERAL
  1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties,
• SEVERALTY
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in
• QUARTERSTAFF
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• SEVERALIZE
  To distinguish.
• ANNUALLY
  Yearly; year by year.
• SEMIANNUALLY
  Every half year.
• SEMIANNUAL
  Half-yearly.
• BIANNUAL
  Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
• HEADQUARTERS
  The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the
• LAMB'S-QUARTERS
  A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.