Word Meanings - TRANSFLUX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A flowing through, across, or beyond.
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- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - BEYOND
1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - FLOW
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer. - FLOWAGE
An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows. - FLOWERAGE
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson. - FLOWERING
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow - THROUGHLY
Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden. - FLOWERET
A small flower; a floret. Shak. - FLOWER-GENTLE
A species of amaranth . - FLOWER
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists - FLOWINGLY
In a flowing manner. - ACROSS
From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course - FLOWINGNESS
Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. W. Nichols. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus. - INFLOW
To flow in. Wiseman. - BALL-FLOWER
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. - OVERFLOWING
An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. - AFLOW
Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning. - THREE-FLOWERED
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.