Word Meanings - SEWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana) (more info) 1. One who sews, or stitches.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• TORTRICID
  Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidæ.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• APPLE
  Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• APPLE-JOHN
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• APPLE-SQUIRE
  A pimp; a kept gallant. Beau. & Fl.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SEWERAGE
  1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
• LARVA
  Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• APPLE PIE
  A pie made of apples with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SEWER
  A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana) (more info) 1. One who sews, or stitches.
• APPLE-FACED
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• CHESS-APPLE
  The wild service of Europe .
• CRAPPLE
  A claw.
• SHELLAPPLE
  See SHELDAFLE
• OTAHEITE APPLE
  The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree , also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree which bears
• SCAPPLE
  To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry. To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone. Gwilt.
• VI-APPLE
  See APPLE
• STRAPPLE
  To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. Chapman.
• ADAM'S APPLE
  See ADAM