Word Meanings - APHELIOTROPISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

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• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• SUNLIGHT
  The light of the sun. Milton.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• HABIT
  habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to 1. To inhabit. In thilke places as they habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom;
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• HABITUATION
  The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
• HABITABLE
  A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey.
• HABITUATE
  1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an
• HABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
• HABITUDE
  1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else
• HABITAT
  The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant. 2. Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• HABITUE
  One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitué of a theater.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• HABITANCY
  See INHABITANCY
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• RECHABITE
  One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• DISHABITED
  Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,