Word Meanings - TANGLEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ADDERWORT
  The common bistort or snakeweed .
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ADDER
  One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
• 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.
• 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;
• PIPEFISH
  Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in
• ADDER FLY
  A dragon fly.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• 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.
• GREATEN
  To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. A minister's is to greaten and exalt . Ken.
• EUROPEANIZE
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.
• GREATCOAT
  An overcoat.
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• KADDER
  The jackdaw.
• NADDER
  An adder. Chaucer.
• BADDER
  compar. of Bad, a. Chaucer.
• BADDERLOCKS
  A large black seaweed sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
• PLEUROPERITONEAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
• MADDERWORT
  A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order as the madder.
• MADDER
  A plant of the Rubia . The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous. Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names