Word Meanings - STALKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.

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• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.
• EYESTALK
  One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.