Word Meanings - COMPLEXIONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to COMPLEXIONED)
- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - PEARLACEOUS
Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - GRASSLESS
Destitute of grass. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - PEARL-EYED
Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract. - COMPLEXIONALLY
Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - ALEPPO GRASS
One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - MOTHER-OF-PEARL
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.