Word Meanings - ARISTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - AWNINGED
Furnished with an awning. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - AWNING
awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - POINTLESS
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid. - AWN
The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray. (more info) agn, Dan. avne, Goth. ahana, OHG. agana, G. agen, ahne, chaff, Gr. egla; prob. from same root as E. acute. See 3d Ear. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - FAWNINGLY
In a fawning manner. - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process. - OUTFAWN
To exceed in fawning. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - WRAWNESS
Peevishness; ill temper; anger. Chaucer. - INDRAWN
Drawn in. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - SEPAWN
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