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A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • ANGULARITY
    The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • REFLEXITY
    The state or condition of being reflected.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • POLYGONUM
    A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.
  • REFLEXLY
    In a reflex manner; reflectively.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • REFLEXIBILITY
    The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.
  • STEMSON
    A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • MINUTELY
    In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • BESET
    1. To set or stud with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn. 2. To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege;
  • BESETTING
    Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.
  • SEVERALITY
    Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall.
  • SEVERALLY
    Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.
  • SUBPENTANGULAR
    Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
  • INANGULAR
    Not angular.
  • SEPTANGULAR
    Heptagonal.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • EQUIANGULAR
    Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.
  • SUBGENUS
    A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • TRIANGULAR
    Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
  • RECTANGULARITY
    The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
  • COMMINUTE
    To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
  • QUADRANGULAR
    Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.

 

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