Word Meanings - STALKLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having no stalk.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• HAVILDAR
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.
• HAVELESS
  Having little or nothing. Gower.
• HAVIER
  A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.
• STALKED
  Having a stalk or stem; borne upon a stem. Stalked barnacle , a goose barnacle, or anatifer; -- called also stalk barnacle. -- Stalked crinoid , any crinoid having a jointed stem.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular