Word Meanings - MAYFLOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.

Related words: (words related to MAYFLOWER)

• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• BLOSSOMY
  Full of blossoms; flowery.
• BLOSSOM
  D. bloesem, L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to 1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a
• TRAILER
  One who, or that which, trails.
• BLOSSOMLESS
  Without blossoms.
• HAWTHORN
  A thorny shrub or tree , having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the
• TRAIL
  To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle. 4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. Longfellow. I presently perceived
• TRAIL ROPE
  See ABOVE
• TRAILING EDGE
  A following edge. See Advancing edge, above.
• ARBUTUS; ARBUTE
  The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus , a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family , having white or usually
• TRAILING
  a. & vb. n. from Trail. Trailing arbutus. See under Arbutus. -- Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing
• EMBLOSSOM
  To cover or adorn with blossoms. On the white emblossomed spray. J. Cunningham.
• MITRAILLEUR
  One who serves a mitrailleuse.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• ENTRAIL
  To interweave; to intertwine. Spenser.
• PENETRAIL
  Penetralia. Harvey.
• MITRAILLE
  Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
• ENTRAILS
  interaneum, pl. interanea, intestine, interaneus inward, interior, 1. The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines. 2. The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails
• MITRAILLEUSE
  A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
• REBLOSSOM
  To blossom again.