Word Meanings - BLADY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.

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• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• GRASSLESS
  Destitute of grass.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• GRASSPLOT
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.
• GRASS-GROWN
  Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
• GRASS
  An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single. Note: This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc., and excludes clover and some other plants which are
• GRASSY
  1. Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn. Spenser. 2. Resembling grass; green.
• GRASS TREE
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• GRASSHOPPER
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididæ and Locustidæ. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• GRASSATION
  A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. Feltham.
• GRASSINESS
  The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
• GRASS-GREEN
  1. Green with grass. 2. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• ALEPPO GRASS
  One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.
• WATER GRASS
  The water cress. (more info) A tall march perennial grass of the southern United States and the American tropics. Manna grass. The grass Chloris elegans. Velvet grass.
• SISAL GRASS; SISAL HEMP
  The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; -- so called from Sisal, a port in Yucatan. See Sisal hemp, under Hemp.
• DOOB GRASS
  A perennial, creeping grass , highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• QUITCH GRASS
  A perennial grass having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. (more info) from
• ALFA ; ALFA GRASS
  A plant of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• BROME GRASS
  A genus of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
• BENT GRASS
  See GRASS