Word Meanings - DEFLUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
Related words: (words related to DEFLUOUS)
- 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.