Word Meanings - KAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1. 2. Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables. 3. A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner. Kail yard, a kitchen garden.

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• GARDEN
  German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• KITCHEN MIDDENS
  Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• BROTHERLY
  Like a brother; affectionately; kindly. "I speak but brotherly of him." Shak.
• GARDENING
  The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
• GARDENSHIP
  Horticulture.
• KITCHEN
  coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden.
• HEADLESS
  1. Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass. 2. Destitute of a chief or leader. Sir W. Raleigh. 3. Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate. Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• BROTHER
  brother, AS. bro; akin to OS. brothar, D. broeder, OHG. pruodar, G. bruder, Icel. bro, Sw. & Dan. broder, Goth. bro, Ir. brathair, W. brawd, pl. brodyr, Lith. brolis, Lett. brahlis, Russ. brat', Pol. & Serv. brat, OSlav. brat, L. frater,
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• GARDENER
  One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
• BROTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being brotherly.
• KITCHEN-RY
  The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland.
• DINNERLESS
  Having no dinner. Fuller.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ALEMBROTH
  The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• HELLBROTH
  A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. Shak.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who