Word Meanings - TRUMPETWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An herbaceous composite plant , often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads. The sea trumpet.
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- HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - CORYMBED
Corymbose. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - 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. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - TRUMPET
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - HEADSTRONG
1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn; - 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. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - 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. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - HEADSTONE
1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - STEMSON
A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow. - 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 - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.