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Word Meanings - DELAWARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • SWEETLY
    In a sweet manner.
  • SWEETISH
    Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
  • SWEETING
    1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • AMBERGREASE
    See AMBERGRIS
  • SWEETROOT
    Licorice.
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • COMPACT
    1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
  • COMPACTIBLE
    That may be compacted.
  • SWEETENING
    1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • GRAPESHOT
    A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot
  • FLAVORED
    Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
  • AMBERGRIS
    A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true
  • AMERICAN
    1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
  • AMERICANISM
    1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
  • FLAVORLESS
    Without flavor; tasteless.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • INCHAMBER
    To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.

 

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