Word Meanings - MARGUERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The daisy . The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.
Related words: (words related to MARGUERITE)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - ASTERT
To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. Spenser. - ASTERISK
The figure of a star, thus, - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - ASTER
A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - ASTERN
1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern. 2. Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- - OFTEN
Frequently; many times; not seldom. - ASTEROPHYLLITE
A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites. - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - CHINALDINE
See QUINALDINE - ASTERISM
An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica. (more info) A constellation. A small cluster of stars. An asterisk, or mark of reference. Three asterisks - ASTERIOIDEA; ASTERIDEA
A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal. - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - ASTERNAL
Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum. - APPLIEDLY
By application. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - MESOGASTER
The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium. - GASTEROMYCETES
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - DEKASTERE
See DECASTERE - EMPLASTER
See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr. - TRICHINA
A small, slender nematoid worm which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - LASTERY
A red color. Spenser. - MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - ECHINATE; ECHINATED
Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp. - SUPRASTERNAL
Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum. - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - CRITICASTER
A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.