Word Meanings - SQUILLITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to squills. "Squillitic vinegar." Holland.

Related words: (words related to SQUILLITIC)

• VINEGARY
  Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• SQUILLITIC
  Of or pertaining to squills. "Squillitic vinegar." Holland.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• VINEGARETTE
  See 2
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• VINEGAR
  1. A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like. Note: The characteristic sourness of vinegar is due to acetic acid, of
• VINEGARROON
  A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach