Word Meanings - POTPOURRI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A medley or mixture. Specifically: A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. A piece of music made up of different airs strung

Additional info about word: POTPOURRI

A medley or mixture. Specifically: A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley. A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.

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• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• SCENTFUL
  1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INTUMESCENT
  Swelling up; expanding.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• REVALESCENT
  Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CONCUPISCENTIOUS
  Concupiscent.
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• CONVALESCENTLY
  In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
• DELITESCENT
  Lying hid; concealed.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.