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Word Meanings - BOLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. 2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is

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1. The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form. 2. A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.

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    Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
  • BARLEY-BREE
    Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
  • COTTONY
    1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • 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.
  • GLOBULARLY
    Spherically.
  • PLANTULE
    The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
  • 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.
  • MEASURER
    One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
  • PERICARP
    The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
  • COTTONADE
    A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
  • PLANTOCRACY
    Government by planters; planters, collectively.
  • PLANTERSHIP
    The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
  • BARLEYCORN
    1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
  • PLANTLESS
    Without plants; barren of vegetation.
  • GLOBULARNESS
    Sphericity; globosity.
  • SCOTCH RITE
    The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • GLOBULAR
    Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection , a perspective
  • 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
  • TWO-CAPSULED
    Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.
  • BUTTER-SCOTCH
    A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
  • IMMEASURED
    Immeasurable. Spenser.
  • ADMEASURE
    To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
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    Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
  • REMEASURE
    To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.
  • OUTMEASURE
    To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.

 

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