Word Meanings - DANGLEBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
Related words: (words related to DANGLEBERRY)
- CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - WHITECAP
The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening. - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - WHITE-FRONTED
Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow. - WHITE FLY
Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder. - CALLE
A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer. - WHITESTER
A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - WHITESIDE
The golden-eye. - 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. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - WHITE-EAR
The wheatear. - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - EDIBLENESS
Suitableness for being eaten. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - BLOOMINGNESS
A blooming condition. - BLOOMER
1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and a broad-brimmed hat. 2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume. - FOUND
1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his - 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. - GYMNASTICALLY
In a gymnastic manner. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - 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. - UNEMPIRICALLY
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - UNIVOCALLY
In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall. - INCREDIBLENESS
Incredibility.