Word Meanings - WONT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29. (more info) akin to D. wonen, OS. wun, OHG, won, G. wohnen, and AS. wund, gewuna, custom, habit;

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DOWNWEED
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
DOWNPOUR
A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
DONATOR
One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
DOG-ROSE
A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
DOG'S-EAR
The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
DOIT
1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
DODECASYLLABIC
Having twelve syllables.
DORMANCY
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
DOGMATIC
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
DOQUET
A warrant. See Docket.
DOVELET
A young or small dove. Booth.
DOMITE
A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily.
DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
USHERDOM
The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
DOMINATOR
A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.
DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
MENISCUS
A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
PROTOGYNOUS
See PROTEROGYNOUS
ADONAI
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
ANGUINEOUS
Snakelike.
BUSH
The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
RIPARIOUS
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
TROUSSEAU
The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
PALACIOUS
Palatial. Graunt.
FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden.
POLYPHYLLOUS
Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
ADORABILITY
Adorableness.
UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk.
MALACOSTOMOUS
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
DESMOGNATHOUS
Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
ANTIBILLOUS
Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
PAEDOGENESIS
Reproduction by young or larval animals.

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