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Word Meanings - ALCOVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden
Additional info about word: ALCOVE
A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper. 3. Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.
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- RECESSED
1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - ARBORET
A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton. - ARBORICULTURAL
Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - ARBORICULTURIST
One who cultivates trees. - ARBOR DIANAE
A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form. - ARBORICOLE
Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds. - RECESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room. - SHADY
1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that - ARBOREOUS
1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy. - ARBORATOR
One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn. - ARBOR
A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney. - ARBORETUM
A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes. - ARBORIFORM
Treelike in shape. - ARBORIZATION
The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite. - RECESS
A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be - ALCOVE
A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library. 2. A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden - ARBORICAL
Relating to trees. - RECESSION
The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor. - EMBOWER
To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i. - DISEMBOWERED
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant. - UNHARBOR
To drive from harbor or shelter. - PRECESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. - HARBOR MASTER
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. - CARBORUNDUM
A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than