Word Meanings - BLOODWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot , and to an extensive order of plants , the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• DYEHOUSE
  A building in which dyeing is carried on.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DYE
  To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool , to dye firmly; to imbue
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.