Word Meanings - BACCIVOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

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• EATAGE
  Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
• EATH
  Easy or easily. "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.
• BACCIVOROUS
  Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
• EATABLE
  Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
• EAT
  akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass
• SUBSISTENCY
  Subsistence.
• EATING
  1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.
• SUBSISTENCE
  See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in
• EATER
  One who, or that which, eats.
• SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
  A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
• SUBSIST
  sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: 1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope. 2. To continue; to retain a certain state. Firm
• BIRDSEED
  Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.
• SUBSISTENT
  1. Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit. 2. Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
• MEATY
  Abounding in meat.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• LEAT
  An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• IDEAT; IDEATE
  The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
• PANCREATIN
  One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• CLYPEATE
  Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• OLEATE
  A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.