Word Meanings - HAUSTORIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Related words: (words related to HAUSTORIUM)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• DODDERED
  Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• BROWN THRUSH
  A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• BROWNIST
  A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
• BROWNISH
  Somewhat brown.
• BROWN
  Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread
• DODDER
  A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root. is nourished by the plant that supports it.
• BROWNSTONE
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• BROWN BILL
  A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part
• BROWN RACE
  The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.
• BROWNING
  A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster. (more info) 1. The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.
• NUT-BROWN
  Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.
• SEAL-BROWN
  Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
• HAIR-BROWN
  Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.
• EMBROWN
  To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.