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.