Word Meanings - COTTONWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• POLARY
  Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole. Sir T. Browne.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• POLARISCOPY
  The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• ELECTRO-POLAR
  Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
  Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.