Word Meanings - STINKWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Related words: (words related to STINKWOOD)
- SOUTHWEST
The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - AFRICAN
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - SMELLING
1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - AFRICANIZE
To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett. - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
Toward the southwest. - SOUTHER
A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south. - SOUTHERLINESS
The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south. - 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 - EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent. - EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
Georgia; -- a nickname. - SOUTHEAST
The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region. - SOUTHERNWOOD
A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.