Word Meanings - CUBDRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
Related words: (words related to CUBDRAWN)
- NIGHT-FARING
Going or traveling in the night. Gay. - NIGHTLY
At night; every night. - COUCHE
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point. - WHEREIN
1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet - NIGHTMAN
One whose business is emptying privies by night. - SUCKATASH
See BARTLETT - COUCHER
One who couches paper. 3. Etym: A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. Blount. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. Cowell. (more info) 1. One who couches. - SUCKFISH
A sucker fish. - NIGHTLONG
Lasting all night. - COUCHLESS
Having no couch or bed. - NIGHTSHADE
A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna - NIGHTLESS
Having no night. - WHEREINTO
1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively. - DRAWN
See PATTERN - COUCHANCY
State of lying down for repose. - SUCKLING
1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast. 2. A small kind of yellow clover common in Southern Europe. - NIGHTTIME
The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime. - SUCKEN
The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground. - WOULDINGNESS
Willingness; desire. - SUCKLE
A teat. Sir T. Herbert. - KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - ALLNIGHT
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon. - BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - ACCOUCHEMENT
Delivery in childbed (more info) of a child, to aid in delivery, OF. acouchier orig. to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; L. ad + collocare to lay, put, place. See - MIDNIGHT SUN
The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer. - SEVENNIGHT
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight. - FORTNIGHT
The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, - HONEYSUCKLE
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; - GOATSUCKER
One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat - SEERSUCKER
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. - MIDNIGHT
The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak. - INDRAWN
Drawn in. - KNIGHT BANNERET
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field