Word Meanings - DEFOREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.

Related words: (words related to DEFOREST)

• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• AGRICOLATION
  Agriculture. Bailey.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• AGRICULTURE
  The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• AGRICULTURISM
  Agriculture.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• AGRICULTURAL
  Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant , a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses,
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• AGRICULTOR
  An agriculturist; a farmer.
• AGRICULTURIST
  One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.
• CLEARWING
  A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
• CLEARAGE
  The act of reforming anything; clearance.
• CLEAR-SHINING
  Shining brightly. Shak.
• CLEAR-SIGHTED
  Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• PERINUCLEAR
  Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• CLEAR
  cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, broght, loud, distinct, renownwd; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and
• ANTIPODAGRIC
  Good against gout. -- n.
• BINUCLEAR; BINUCLEATE
  Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.