Word Meanings - BOUQUET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. 1. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers. 2. A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

Related words: (words related to BOUQUET)

• AROMATIZE
  To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume. Bacon.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• AROMA
  1. The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee. 2. Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.
• PERFUMER
  1. One who, oe that which, perfumes. 2. One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.
• AROMATIZATION
  The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.
• NOSEGAY
  A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope.
• BUNCHY
  Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
• BOUQUET
  feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. 1. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers. 2. A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.
• BOUQUETIN
  The ibex.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• BUNCHBERRY
  The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
• BUNCH
  A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. (more info) 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster,
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• PERFUMERY
  The art of preparing perfumes. (more info) 1. Perfumes, in general. 2. Etym:
• PERFUME
  To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.
• BUNCH-BACKED
  Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.
• AROMATOUS
  Aromatic. Caxton.
• THICKET
  A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
• BUNCHINESS
  The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
• BUNCH GRASS
  A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• BOSKET; BOSQUET
  A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
• BAROMACROMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.