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Word Meanings - FLOWER-FENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • YELLOW-GOLDS
    A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
  • YELLOWTOP
    A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
  • NAMELESSLY
    In a nameless manner.
  • YELLOWFISH
    A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
  • POINCIANA
    A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments. Note: The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa,
  • NAMABLE
    Capable of being named.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • NAMELESS
    1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • NAMER
    One who names, or calls by name.
  • TROPICALLY
    In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
  • NAMAYCUSH
    A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.
  • YELLOW
    1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • NAMESAKE
    One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
  • NAMBY-PAMBY
    Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.
  • NAMELY
    1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a particular
  • YELLOWBILL
    The American scoter.
  • DYNAMO
    A dynamo-electric machine.
  • DYNAMOMETRY
    The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • DYNAMOMETER
    An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
  • SERIES DYNAMO
    A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
  • MONODYNAMISM
    The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.
  • HEMADYNAMOMETER
    An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.
  • ADYNAMIC
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.

 

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