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Word Meanings - PALMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith. 2. Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous. In the most high and palmy state of Rome. Shak.

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  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • SHORER
    One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • DERIVE
    To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
  • GOLDEN
    1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • BEARISH
    Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
  • BEARWARD
    A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • BEAR'S-EAR
    A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • SANDSTONE
    A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous,
  • BEARABLE
    Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
  • BEAR
    1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not,
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • FLOURISHINGLY
    , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • DERIVATIVE
    Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • SEASHORE
    All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • IMPROSPEROUS
    Not prosperous. Dryden. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ness, n.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.

 

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