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Word Meanings - SUPPLE-JACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . .

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A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving. Note: This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies.

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    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
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    1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
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    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
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    A fulling mill. Halliwell.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
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    The process of Americanizing.
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    As much set type as fills a composing stick.
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    In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
  • DISPLANTATION
    The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
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    Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
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    Front stick of a hearth fire.

 

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