Word Meanings - BERRYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

Related words: (words related to BERRYING)

• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• SEEKER
  One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. A skeptic ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar. (more info)
• SEEK-NO-FURTHER
  A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• SELF-SEEKER
  One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• MISSEEK
  To seek for wrongly.
• FORGATHER
  To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.
• COMET-FINDER; COMET-SEEKER
  A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.
• OMNIUM-GATHERUM
  A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. Selden.
• BESEEK
  To beseech. Chaucer.
• REGATHER
  To gather again.
• WOOLGATHERING
  Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.