Word Meanings - HEARTSEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.