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Word Meanings - GAYLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully. 2. Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • BLOOMINGNESS
    A blooming condition.
  • BLOOMER
    1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • FROLICKY
    Frolicsome. Richardson.
  • BLOOMARY
    See BLOOMERY
  • SHOWILY
    In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
  • BLITHELY
    In a blithe manner.
  • SPLENDIDLY
    In a splendid manner; magnificently.
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • BLOOMLESS
    Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
  • BLOOMING
    The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  • FINELY
    In a fine or finished manner.
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • MIRTHFUL
    1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. 2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
    A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • REDRESSIVE
    Tending to redress. Thomson.
  • GLOBEFLOWER
    A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.

 

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