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Word Meanings - ALCOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden

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A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper. 3. Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

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  • RECESSED
    1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • ARBORET
    A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.
  • ARBORICULTURAL
    Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.
  • RETREATMENT
    The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
  • ARBORICULTURIST
    One who cultivates trees.
  • ARBOR DIANAE
    A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.
  • ARBORICOLE
    Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.
  • RECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
  • SHADY
    1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
  • ARBOREOUS
    1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.
  • ARBORATOR
    One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.
  • ARBORETUM
    A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
  • ARBOR
    A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ARBORIFORM
    Treelike in shape.
  • ARBORIZATION
    The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.
  • RECESS
    A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
  • ALCOVE
    A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden
  • ARBORICAL
    Relating to trees.
  • RECESSION
    The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • DISEMBOWERED
    Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
  • UNHARBOR
    To drive from harbor or shelter.
  • PRECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
  • HARBOR MASTER
    An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
  • CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
    Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
  • CARBORUNDUM
    A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than

 

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