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Word Meanings - AWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • BARLEY-BREE
    Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • CHAFFER
    1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
  • ACUTE-ANGLED
    Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • ARISTARCH
    A severe critic. Knowles.
  • ACUTE
    Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-
  • ARISTARCHIAN
    Severely critical.
  • CHAFFINCH
    A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
  • BARLEYCORN
    1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • BEARDIE
    The bearded loach of Europe.
  • BEARDLESS
    1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.
  • CHAFFERN
    A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
  • APPENDAGE
    A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying,
  • SIMILARLY
    In a similar manner.
  • ARISTA
    An awn. Gray.
  • ACUTENESS
    Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
  • BEARDED
    Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • DISSIMILARLY
    In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
  • BRISTLE
    A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray. (more info) D. borstel, OHG. burst, G. borste, Icel. burst, Sw. borst, and to Skr. bh edge, point, and prob, L. fastigium extremity, Gr. brush, 1. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
  • GRAYBEARD
    An old man. Shak.
  • FORKBEARD
    A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard.
  • PERACUTE
    Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey.
  • TREEBEARD
    A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
  • JAGANATHA; JAGANATHA
    See JUGGERNAUT

 

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