Word Meanings - DECIDUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at
Additional info about word: DECIDUOUS
Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.
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- INTERVALLUM
An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth. - EXCEPT
1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak. - FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray. - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - FALLER
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - STAGERY
Exhibition on the stage. - EXCEPTIONER
One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton. - FALLOW
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. - FALLOPIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. - INTERVAL
Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone. - EXCEPTIONAL
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv. - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - EXCEPTANT
Making exception. - SUBJECTLESS
Having no subject. - FALLEN
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. - SUBJECTIVE
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes - FALLFISH
A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. - SUBJECT
first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below, - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - MISFALL
To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer. - BEFALL
To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak. - MISGROWTH
Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. - INFALLIBLY
In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair. - WASTAGE
Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.