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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.

 

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