Word Meanings - DARLINGTONIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
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- PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold. - SINGLE-BREASTED
Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - HOOD
The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. (more info) 1. State; condition. How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser. 2. A covering or garment for the head or the head - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - DROWN
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - HOODLUM
A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - SINGLE-ACTING
Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - SINGLE-HANDED
Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. - TUBULARIAN
Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain - PITCHER
1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - SINGLE-HEARTED
Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv. - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - HOODED
1. Covered with a hood. 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. 3. Hood-shaped; esp. , rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of - CONTAINANT
A container. - SERFHOOD; SERFISM
Serfage. - HARDIHOOD
Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster. Syn. -- Intrepidity; - MANHOOD
1. The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman. 2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution. I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus. Shak. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - BABEHOOD
Babyhood. Udall. - FOEHOOD
Enmity. Br. Bedell. - KINGHOOD
The state of being a king; the attributes of a king; kingship. Gower. - DEACONHOOD
The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship. - SELFHOOD
Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. Bib. Sacra. - JEALOUSHOOD
Jealousy. Shak. - WATER PITCHER
One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.