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Word Meanings - PLASHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth. 2. Specked, as if plashed with color. Keats.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • EARTHLY-MINDED
    Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • EARTH FLAX
    A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
  • SPECK
    The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls , falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • SPECKLED-BILL
    The American white-fronted goose .
  • EARTHSTAR
    A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
  • SPECKLEDNESS
    The quality of being speckled.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • EARTHBRED
    Low; grovelling; vulgar.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • EARTHBANK
    A bank or mound of earth.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • COLORADO BEETLE
    A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • COLORADOITE
    Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • SPECKLE
    A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. An huge great serpent, all with speckles pied. Spebser.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • UNEARTHLY
    Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • TRICOLOR
    1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
  • WATER-COLORIST
    One who paints in water colors.
  • DECOLOR
    To deprive of color; to bleach.
  • PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

 

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