Word Meanings - SCALLION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to SCALLION)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• ONION
  A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium , having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus. Onion fish , the grenadier. -- Onion
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• 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
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• BOTTOM
  The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.