Word Meanings - SEDGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Made or composed of sedge. With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. Shak.
Related words: (words related to SEDGED)
- COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - HARMLESS
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - COMPOSITE
Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital. - COMPOSTURE
Manure; compost. Shak. - COMPOSITAE
A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples. - SEDGE
Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. - COMPOS-MENTIS
One who is compos mentis. - COMPOSED
Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n. - SEDGY
Overgrown with sedge. On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak. - COMPOSING
1. Tending to compose or soothe. 2. Pertaining to, or used in, composition. Composing frame , a stand for holding cases of type when in use. -- Composing rule , a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing - COMPOSITIVE
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. - COMPOSITOR
One who sets type and arranges it for use. (more info) 1. One who composes or sets in order. - COMPOSITION
The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. - SEDGED
Made or composed of sedge. With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks. Shak. - COMPOST
A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak. (more info) 1. A mixture; a compound. A sad - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - CHARMLESS
Destitute of charms. Swift. - NON COMPOS; NON COMPOS MENTIS
Not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; hence, also, as a noun, an idiot; a lunati - DECOMPOSITE
See 2 (more info) 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite. - RECOMPOSITION
The act of recomposing. - PRECOMPOSE
To compose beforehand. Johnson.