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Word Meanings - CIRCUMNUTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

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  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • BOW OAR
    . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
  • GROWL
    To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • BOWGE
    To swell out. See Bouge.
  • BOWKNOT
    A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
  • CLIMB
    To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
  • BOWYER
    1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
  • BOWLER
    One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • BOWNE
    To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.
  • BENDER
    1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
  • BOWHEAD
    The great Arctic or Greenland whale. . See Baleen, and Whale.
  • DIFFERENT
    1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
  • BOW NET
    . 1. A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end. 2. A net for catching birds. J. H. Walsh.
  • BOWIE KNIFE
    A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
  • BOWENITE
    A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
  • BOWLEG
    A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.
  • BOWESS
    See BOWER
  • GROWAN
    A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • DISEMBOWERED
    Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
  • UPGROW
    To grow up. Milton.
  • EMBOWL
    To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • FULL-GROWN
    Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
  • OUTCLIMB
    To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
  • OVERBEND
    To bend to excess.

 

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