Word Meanings - DIANA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey , a handsome, white-bearded monkey

Additional info about word: DIANA

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey , a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa

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• WHITE FLY
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• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• ARTEMISIA
  A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.
• VIRGINIA
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• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
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  Front stick of a hearth fire.
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  Being without shade; not shaded.
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• WHITEWING
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• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
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  Full of shade; shady.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• WHITE MUSTARD
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• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• BLUEBEARD
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  Not devirginate. Chapman.
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