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Word Meanings - DEFLUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • FALLALS; FAL-LALS
    Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • BAILEY
    ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
  • 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.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • 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.
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • FALLENCY
    An exception. Jer. Taylor.
  • FALLEN
    Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
  • FALLFISH
    A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  • FALLING
    from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
  • FLOW
    imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
  • FALLIBLY
    In a fallible manner.
  • FALLAX
    Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
  • FLOWAGE
    An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • UNFALLIBLE
    Infallible. Shak.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • MISFALL
    To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • BEFALL
    To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
  • INFALLIBLY
    In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
  • GLOBEFLOWER
    A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.

 

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