Word Meanings - UPSPEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. Cowper.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• SPEARHEAD
  The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• SHOOT
  An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current,
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• SPEARWORT
  A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
• SPEARY
  Having the form of a spear.
• GRASS
  An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are
• GRASSY
  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green.
• SPEAR
  1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: "A sharp ground spear." Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
• GRASS TREE
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large
• SPEARMINT
  A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• GRASSATION
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. Feltham.
• GRASSINESS
  The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
• GRASS-GREEN
  1. Green with grass. 2. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
• SHOOTER
  1. One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner. 2. That which shoots. Specifically: A firearm; as, a five-shooter. A shooting star.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• TRAP SHOOTING
  Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
• OUTSHOOT
  To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• QUITCH GRASS
  A perennial grass having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. (more info) from
• ALFA ; ALFA GRASS
  A plant of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• UNDERSHOOT
  To shoot short of .
• BROME GRASS
  A genus of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
• BENT GRASS
  See GRASS