Word Meanings - BOXEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box . The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.
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- FADAISE
A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense. - FADGE
To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - FADED
That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - FADY
Faded. Shenstone. - FADER
Father. Chaucer. - FADME
A fathom. Chaucer. - FADELESS
Not liable to fade; unfading. - FADING
Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. -- n. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - RESEMBLABLE
Admitting of being compared; like. Gower. - BOXWOOD
The wood of the box . - FADDLE
To trifle; to toy. -- v. t. - FAD
A hobby ; freak; whim. -- Fad"dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot. - FADEDLY
In a faded manner. A dull room fadedly furnished. Dickens. - BOXEN
Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box . The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden. - LEAVES
pl. of Leaf. - RESEMBLER
One who resembles. - PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. - FIDDLE-FADDLE
A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. Spectator.