Word Meanings - RIPPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

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• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• IMPLEMENT
  That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.
• BROOM CORN
  A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
• BROOMSTICK
  A stick used as a handle of a broom.
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• BROOM
  A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• BROOMY
  Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom. If land grow mossy or broomy. Mortimer.
• IMPLEMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.
• SEEDSMAN
  1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.
• REMOVABLE
  Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
• BROOM RAPE
  A genus of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes
• BROOMSTAFF
  A broomstick. Shak.
• REMOVAL
  The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
• TEETHING
  The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• GREEN-BROOM
  A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
• DIMPLEMENT
  The state of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
• CLUBROOM
  The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.
• FELDSPATHIC; FELDSPATHOSE
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.