Word Meanings - SOWBANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red goosefoot , -- said to be fatal to swine.

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SWINEHERD
  A keeper of swine.
• SWINECOTE
  A hogsty.
• SWINECASE
  A hogsty.
• SWINESTONE
  See STINKSTONE
• SWINE-POX
  A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
• FATALISM
  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
• SWINEFISH
  The wolf fish.
• SWINERY
  See PIGGERY
• SWINEPIPE
  The European redwing.
• FATALLY
  1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. 2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
• FATALIST
  One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
• SWINE
  Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
• SWINECRUE
  A hogsty.
• FATAL
  1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. That fatal screech owl to
• SWINESTY
  A sty, or pen, for swine.