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Word Meanings - BASSWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

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  • WHITECAP
    The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  • WHITE-FRONTED
    Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
  • WHITE FLY
    Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
  • BASSWOOD
    The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • WHITEWING
    The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
  • WHITEWALL
    The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
  • WHITE MUSTARD
    A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
  • WHITE-WATER
    A dangerous disease of sheep.
  • WHITETHROAT
    Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
  • WHITEBILL
    The American coot.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • WHITE-EYE
    Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • WHITES
    Leucorrh 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white color.
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • REPOLISH
    To polish again.
  • SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
    The substance of the medullary sheath.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.

 

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