Word Meanings - SEMPERVIRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Always fresh; evergreen. Smart.

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• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• FRESHLY
  In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.
• FRESHMAN
  novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes
• FRESH-WATER
  1. Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels. 2. Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor. 3. Unskilled;
• FRESHMANSHIP
  The state of being a freshman.
• FRESH
  AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan. frisk, fersk, Icel. fr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco, OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fra, which are 1. Possessed of original life and vigor;
• FRESHMENT
  Refreshment.
• FRESH-NEW
  Unpracticed. Shak.
• FRESHEN
  To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast , to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more
• EVERGREEN
  Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
• SMARTLY
  In a smart manner.
• SMARTNESS
  The quality or state of being smart.
• SMART
  schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my
• SMARTLE
  To waste away.
• ALWAYS
  1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his looks and thoughts. Milton. 2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; --
• EVERGREEN STATE
  Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.
• SMARTEN
  To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. W. Black.
• AFRESH
  Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• NOSESMART
  A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
• REFRESHER
  An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth. (more info) 1. One who, or that which,
• REFRESHFUL
  Full of power to refresh; refreshing. -- Re*fresh"ful*ly, adv.
• REFRESHING
  Reviving; reanimating. -- Re*fresh"ing*ly, adv. -- Re*fresh"ing*ness, n.