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Word Meanings - PRINCEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • TROPICALLY
    In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • LIGHTERAGE
    1. The price paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter. 2. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.
  • 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.
  • AMERICAN
    1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
  • CORDIALNESS
    Cordiality. Cotgrave.
  • AMERICANISM
    1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
  • AMERICAN PLAN
    In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
  • 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.
  • COLORADOITE
    Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • COLOR
    An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • COLORIFIC
    Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
  • COLORIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • COLOR SERGEANT
    See SERGEANT
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • FEATHER-VEINED
    Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
  • LAMPLIGHTER
    The calico bass. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
  • FLIGHTER
    A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
  • 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.
  • NET-VEINED
    Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net- veined wing or leaf.
  • DECOLOR
    To deprive of color; to bleach.

 

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