Word Meanings - MEADOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay. 2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark

Additional info about word: MEADOW

1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay. 2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

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• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• MARSHY
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.