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Word Meanings - HONEYDEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. 2. A kind

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1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. 2. A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.

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    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
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    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
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    In a sweet manner.
  • SWEETISH
    Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • SWEETING
    1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • DROPSICAL
    1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
  • FOUNDATION
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    One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
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    State of being dropsical.
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    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SWEETENING
    1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
  • SECRETARY
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    imp. & p. p. of Find.
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    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
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    In a gymnastic manner.
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    In a hypercritical manner.
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