Word Meanings - CORROVAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

Related words: (words related to CORROVAL)

• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• CURARE; CURARI
  A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos . It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians as
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• ARROWY
  1. Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. 2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ALLICE; ALLIS
  The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
• ALLIGATION
  A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• ALLITERATE
  To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• ALLIGATE
  To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HALLIDOME
  See HALIDOM