Word Meanings - BAXTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A baker; originally, a female baker.

FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
FEMALE FERN
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
BAKERY
1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
ORIGINALLY
1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
BAKER
1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused
FEMALE RHYMES
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
BAKER-LEGGED
Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
ABORIGINALLY
Primarily.