Word Meanings - FORMICARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.

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• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• DWELL
  AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• DWELLING
  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling
• DWELLER
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• OUTDWELL
  To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
• INDWELLER
  An inhabitant. Spenser.
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• WATER SPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.
• UPSWARM
  To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. Shak. Cowper.
• LAKE-DWELLER
  See LAKE
• HOME-DWELLING
  Keeping at home.
• OUTDWELLER
  One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
• INDWELL
  To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.
• UNDWELLABLE
  Uninhabitable. "A land undwellable." Wyclif.