Word Meanings - COSTARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; --
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and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; -- used contemptuously. Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. Shak.
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The constellation Aquarius. - WATERWORT
Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. - WATER SHREW
Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - WATER RAT
The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate. - WATER CRAKE
The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. - WATER DOG
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - WATER SAIL
A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water. - WATER CLOCK
An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra. - WATERIE
The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - WATER BALLAST
Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - WATER RAM
An hydraulic ram. - WATER LINE
Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel. Note: In a half-breadth plan, the water lines are outward curves showing the horizontal form of the ship at their several - WATER LOCUST
A thorny leguminous tree which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley. - WATER PARSNIP
Any plant of the aquatic umbelliferous genus Sium, poisonous herbs with pinnate or dissected leaves and small white flowers. - WATERING
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To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
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A horse that has the habit of cribbing. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - FRIBBLE
Frivolous; trifling; sily. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - PINEAPPLE
A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.