Word Meanings - FEATHERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ASCENT
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
DEPASCENT
Feeding.
ADNASCENT
Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.
REASCENT
A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.
CONNASCENT
Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.
VIOLASCENT
Violescent.
RENASCENT
1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced. 2. See Renaissant.
ENASCENT
Coming into being; nascent. Bp. Warburton.
NASCENT
Evolving; being evolved or produced. Nascent state , the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying
SUBNASCENT
Growing underneath. Evelyn.