Word Meanings - HAULM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw. (more info) halm, Icel. halmr, L. calamus reed, cane, stalk, Gr. Excel,

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• CEREALIA
  Public festivals in honor of Ceres. 2. The cereals. Crabb.
• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• CEREAL
  Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds , or to their seeds or grain.
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• STEMSON
  A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• DENUDATE
  To denude.
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• EXCELSIOR
  More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
• STRAWWORM
  A caddice worm.
• STRAWY
  Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.
• STRAW
  To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Chaucer.
• STRAWBERRY
  A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the
• DENUDE
  To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• NECROPSY
  A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.
• CIRCUMDENUDATION
  Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• CORNSTALK
  A stalk of Indian corn.