Word Meanings - CIRCUMNUTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

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• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• BOWNE
  To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• BOWHEAD
  The great Arctic or Greenland whale. . See Baleen, and Whale.
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• BOW NET
  . 1. A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end. 2. A net for catching birds. J. H. Walsh.
• BOWENITE
  A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
• BOWIE KNIFE
  A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
• BOWLEG
  A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.
• BOWESS
  See BOWER
• GROWAN
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• OUTCLIMB
  To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.