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Word Meanings - PAMPERO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage. Sir W. Parish.

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  • DOWNWEED
    Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
  • DOWNPOUR
    A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
  • DONATOR
    One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
  • DOG-ROSE
    A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • DOG'S-EAR
    The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • DODECASYLLABIC
    Having twelve syllables.
  • DOIT
    1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
  • DORMANCY
    The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
  • DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
    A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • DOGMATIC
    One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
  • DOMITE
    A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
  • DOVELET
    A young or small dove. Booth.
  • DOQUET
    A warrant. See Docket.
  • DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
    A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
  • DOCTORATE
    The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
  • DOMINATOR
    A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.
  • DOUBLEGANGER
    An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
  • ADONAI
    A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
  • PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
    Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • UNDERDOER
    One who underdoes; a shirk.
  • HADDOCK
    A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
  • PAEDOGENESIS
    Reproduction by young or larval animals.
  • PAEDOGENETIC
    Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
  • MICRODONT
    Having small teeth.
  • CONDOLER
    One who condoles.
  • ACCELERANDO
    Gradually accelerating the movement.
  • TORPEDO
    Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
  • GRENADO
    See GRENADE
  • JURDON
    Jordan. Chaucer.

 

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