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Word Meanings - SALICACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging or relating to the willow.

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  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • WILLOW-WORT
    Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • RELATE
    1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
  • RELATIVITY
    The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
  • WILLOWISH
    Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
  • WILLOWED
    Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
  • RELATRIX
    A female relator.
  • BELONG
    attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
  • RELATIONAL
    1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
  • RELATED
    See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric
  • WILLOWY
    1. Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray. 2. Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.
  • RELATOR
    A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
  • BELONGING
    1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
  • RELATER
    One who relates or narrates.
  • WILLOW-WEED
    A European species of loosestrife . Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.
  • RELATION
    1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
  • RELATEDNESS
    The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson.
  • WILLOW-HERB
    A perennial herb with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • IRRELATIVE
    Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.
  • IRRELATION
    The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
  • PRELATEITY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • CORRELATE
    To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.
  • PRELATY
    Prelacy. Milton.
  • WATER WILLOW
    An American aquatic plant with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers.
  • UNPRELATED
    Deposed from the office of prelate.
  • PRELATESHIP
    The office of a prelate. Harmar.

 

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