Word Meanings - SPRAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden. 2. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray. And from the trees did lop the

Additional info about word: SPRAY

1. A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden. 2. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray. And from the trees did lop the needless spray. Spenser. A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold. A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. Knight. Spray drain , a drain made by laying under earth the sprays or small branches of trees, which keep passages open.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPRAY)

• Branch
• Member
• bifurcation
• bough
• limb
• offspring
• shoot
• spray
• sprig
• twig
• ramification
• offshoot
• relative
• scion
• Twig
• Sprig
• branch

Related words: (words related to SPRAY)

• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• SCION
  A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• MEMBER
  A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
• BRANCHIOPODA
  An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
• BRANCHINESS
  Fullness of branches.
• SPRIGHTFUL
  Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.
• BOUGHTEN
  Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• BRANCHY
  Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.
• SPRIG
  A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point. (more info) 1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley. 2. A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement. A sprig whom I remember,
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• SPRAYBOARD
  See
• BRANCH
  1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.
• SPRAY
  1. A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden. 2. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray. And from the trees did lop the
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• HYPOBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.
• PERENNIBRANCHIATE
  Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
• TECTIBRANCHIATE
  Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n.
• SCYPHOBRANCHII
  An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
• DERMOBRANCHIATE
  Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• CIRROBRANCHIATA
  A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.