Word Meanings - WIDOW-WAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• EVERGREEN
  An evergreen plant. 2. pl.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• SHRUBBINESS
  Quality of being shrubby.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• SOUTHERNMOST
  Farthest south.
• SOUTHERNLY
  Somewhat southern. -- adv.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• EUROPEAN
  A native or an inhabitant of Europe.
• SHRUB
  A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• 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
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• UNSHRUBBED
  Being without shrubs.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• REFOUND
  1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• REFOUNDER
  One who refounds.