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Word Meanings - BEDSTRAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. -- White bedstraw is G. mollugo. (more info) 1. Straw put into a bed. Bacon.

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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.
  • YELLOW-GOLDS
    A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
  • YELLOWTOP
    A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
  • WHITESTER
    A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
  • YELLOWFISH
    A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • WHITESIDE
    The golden-eye.
  • WHITE-EAR
    The wheatear.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • SQUARE
    1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper. 2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • 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.
  • THREE-SQUARE
    Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
  • JACKSTRAW
    1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
  • HEPPELWHITE
    Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
  • T SQUARE
    See T
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

 

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