Word Meanings - DARLINGTONIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

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• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• HOOD
  The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. (more info) 1. State; condition. How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser. 2. A covering or garment for the head or the head
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• HOODLUM
  A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• HOODED
  1. Covered with a hood. 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. 3. Hood-shaped; esp. , rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• SERFHOOD; SERFISM
  Serfage.
• HARDIHOOD
  Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster. Syn. -- Intrepidity;
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• MANHOOD
  1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. 2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak.
• BABEHOOD
  Babyhood. Udall.
• FOEHOOD
  Enmity. Br. Bedell.
• KINGHOOD
  The state of being a king; the attributes of a king; kingship. Gower.
• DEACONHOOD
  The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
• SELFHOOD
  Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. Bib. Sacra.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.