Word Meanings - RIVALESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female rival. Richardson.

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• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• RIVALSHIP
  Rivalry. B. Jonson.
• RIVALRY
  The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition. "Keen contention and eager rivalries." Jeffrey. Syn. -- Emulation; competition. See Emulation.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• RIVALITY
  1. Rivalry; competition. 2. Equality, as of right or rank. hak.
• RIVAL
  having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak. 2. One who is in
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• CORRIVAL
  A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. Shak.
• QUADRIVALVULAR
  Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• TRIVALVULAR
  Having three valves; three-valved.
• TRIVALENCE
  The quality or state of being trivalent.
• QUADRIVALENCE
  The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.
• OUTRIVAL
  To surpass in a rivalry.
• QUADRIVALENT
  Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.
• SHRIVALTY
  Shrievalty. Johnson.
• ARRIVAL
  1. The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden. 2. The attainment or reaching of any object,
• TRIVALVE
  Anything having three valves, especially a shell.
• QUADRIVALVE
  Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
• TRIVALENT
  Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia.
• CORRIVALRY
  Corivalry.