Word Meanings - TIGRINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - TIGERINE
Tigerish; tigrine. - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - TIGRINE
Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - TIGER-FOOTED
Hastening to devour; furious. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - TIGER-FOOT
See TIGER'S-FOOT - AMERICAN
1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854, - AMERICANISM
1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - AMERICAN PLAN
In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. - TIGER
probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; -- probably so named from 1. A very large and powerful carnivore native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - SCUTIGER
Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects. - WATER-COLORIST
One who paints in water colors. - DECOLOR
To deprive of color; to bleach.