Word Meanings - BASSWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

Related words: (words related to BASSWOOD)

• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• BASSWOOD
  The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• WHITEBILL
  The American coot.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• WHITE-EYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• WHITES
  Leucorrh 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white color.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.