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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- STICK-LAC
See LAC - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - SPIRITUOUS
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; - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - WALK-MILL
A fulling mill. Halliwell. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SUPPLEMENT
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which - STICKING
a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. -- - CLIMB
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - AMERICANIZATION
The process of Americanizing. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - STICKFUL
As much set type as fills a composing stick. - TROPICALLY
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - POKING-STICK
A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak. - SHOPWALKER
One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - PIG-STICKING
Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray. - FORESTICK
Front stick of a hearth fire.