Word Meanings - BOXEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box . The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to BOXEN)

• FADAISE
  A vapid or meaningless remark; a commonplace; nonsense.
• FADGE
  To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FADED
  That has lost freshness, color, or brightness; grown dim. "His faded cheek." Milton. Where the faded moon Made a dim silver twilight. Keats.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• FADY
  Faded. Shenstone.
• FADER
  Father. Chaucer.
• FADME
  A fathom. Chaucer.
• FADELESS
  Not liable to fade; unfading.
• FADING
  Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. -- n.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• BOXWOOD
  The wood of the box .
• FADDLE
  To trifle; to toy. -- v. t.
• FAD
  A hobby ; freak; whim. -- Fad"dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.
• FADEDLY
  In a faded manner. A dull room fadedly furnished. Dickens.
• BOXEN
  Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box . The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• FIDDLE-FADDLE
  A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. Spectator.