Word Meanings - FRONDOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves. Leafy. Gray.
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- FRONDEUR
A member of the Fronde. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - FRONDED
Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - FRONDESCENCE
The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - 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. - FROND
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - FRONDATION
The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - SIMPLE
simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded - FRONDLET
A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - MISBEAR
To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - PALLBEARER
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. - UNDERBEARER
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall. - ABEARANCE
Behavior. Blackstone.