Word Meanings - SEA-ISLAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

Related words: (words related to SEA-ISLAND)

• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• FIBER; FIBRE
  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ISLANDY
  Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• DEMI-ISLAND
  Peninsula. Knolles.