Word Meanings - CANARESE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
Related words: (words related to CANARESE)
- INDIANEER
An Indiaman. - INDIA RUBBER
. See Caoutchouc. - DISTRICT
Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe. - INDIAMAN
A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay. - 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 - INDIA STEEL
See WOOTZ - DISTRICTION
Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier. - INDIADEM
To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems. - INDIAN
river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; - BRITISH
Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restrict to the original inhabitants. British gum, a brownish substance, very soluble in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. - DISTRICTLY
Strictly. Foxe. - BRITISHER
An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. - INDIA
A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - REDISTRICT
To divide into new districts. - LINDIA
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. - WEST INDIAN
A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies. - WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea. - RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach