Word Meanings - SPEARWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
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- SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - SPEARMAN
One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SPEARHEAD
The pointed head, or end, of a spear. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SPEARWORT
A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves. - SPEARY
Having the form of a spear. - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - SEVERAL
1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - SEVERALLY
Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey. - SHAPOO
The oörial. - SPEAR
1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: "A sharp ground spear." Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears - SPEARMINT
A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha. - SEVERALTY
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in - GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v. - SHAPELESS
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. - SEVERALIZE
To distinguish. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray. - PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan. - WATER CROWFOOT
An aquatic kind of buttercup , used as food for cattle in parts of England. Great water crowfoot, an American water plant , having deep yellow flowers. - PEAR-SHAPED
Of the form of a pear. - EGG-SHAPED
Resembling an egg in form; ovoid. - LATH-SHAPED
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections. - VASE-SHAPED
Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot. - SHAKESPEAREAN
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his