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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

 

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