Word Meanings - AWNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

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• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• 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.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• SHAPER
  1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool,
• SHAPELY
  1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to
• 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.
• SHAPOO
  The oörial.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• BEARD
  Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw
• BEARDED
  Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata.
• BRISTLETAIL
  An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
• BRISTLE-SHAPED
  Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• SHAPELESS
  Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.
• BRISTLE-POINTED
  Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
• SHAPABLE
  1. That may be shaped. 2. Shapely. "Round and shapable." De Foe.
• SHAPELINESS
  The quality or state of being shapely.
• SHAPS
  Chaparajos. A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. The Century.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• 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
• AWL-SHAPED
  Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• FIDDLE-SHAPED
  Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.
• 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.
• TREEBEARD
  A pendulous branching lichen ; -- so called from its resemblance to hair.
• PEAR-SHAPED
  Of the form of a pear.
• EGG-SHAPED
  Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.
• LATH-SHAPED
  Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
• VASE-SHAPED
  Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.