Word Meanings - ARBORET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

Related words: (words related to ARBORET)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• THICKSET
  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• WOVEN
  p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• THICKEN
  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
• THICKSKIN
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• THICK-KNEE
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity