Word Meanings - WOODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton. 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. 3. Of or pertaining
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1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton. 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. 3. Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan. "Woody nymphs, fair Hamadryades." Spenser. Woody fiber. Fiber or tissue consisting of slender, membranous tubes tapering at each end. A single wood cell. See under Wood. Goodale. -- Woody nightshade. . See Bittersweet, 3 . -- Woody pear , the inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum; -- called also wooden pear.
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- FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - FIBER; FIBRE
1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - SECRET
segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - GROVEL
adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate - FIBERLESS; FIBRELESS
Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber. - CONTAINANT
A container. - SECRETNESS
1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne. - ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed - WOODY
1. Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land. "The woody wilderness." Bryant. Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove. Milton. 2. Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants. 3. Of or pertaining - 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 - SECRETORY
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. - GROVELER
One who grovels; an abject wretch. - CONSISTENT
1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - SEMILIGNEOUS
Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous. - INCONSISTENTLY
In an inconsistent manner. - MESEMBRYANTHEMUM
A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f - UNDERGROVE
A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth. - INCONSISTENCY
1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.