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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.

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  • 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.

 

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