Word Meanings - FORGET-ME-NOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively considered the emblem of fidelity. Note: Formerly the name was given to the Ajuga Chamæpitus.
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- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - 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 - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - 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. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - EMBLEMIZE
To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. - MYOSOTIS
A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - CONSIDER
consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to - EXTENSIVELY
To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - 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. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - INCONSIDERATION
Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it