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A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. (more info) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor,

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A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. (more info) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor, in allusion to the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf.

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• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• NARCISSUS
  A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. (more info) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor,
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• LOBEFOOT
  A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• CROWN-SAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CROWNLESS
  Without a crown.
• LOBE-FOOTED
  Lobiped.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• TORPOR
  1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. 2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
• LOBULETTE
  A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.
• LOBIPED
  Having lobate toes, as a coot.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• GLOBULE
  A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. (more info) 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules
• PALMATILOBED
  Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• GLOBOUS
  Spherical. Milton.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• BLOBBER-LIPPED
  Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• CONGLOBATION
  1. The act or process of forming into a ball. Sir T. Browne. 2. A round body.