Word Meanings - HYGROSCOPICITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
Related words: (words related to HYGROSCOPICITY)
- POSSESSIVE
Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the - ABSORBING
Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv. - ACCORDANCY
Accordance. Paley. - ACCORDANTLY
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. - POSSESSIONER
1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes. - ABSORBITION
Absorption. - ABSORBABILITY
The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham . - ACCORDINGLY
1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate - ACCORDING
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat. - MOISTURE
1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak. - MOISTURELESS
Without moisture. - PROPERTY
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge - ACCORDMENT
Agreement; reconcilement. Gower. - POSSESSIONARY
Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession. - POSSESSOR
One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world. - DISCHARGER
One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod. - DISCHARGE
1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge - ACCORD
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29. (more - ABSORB
Etym: 1. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving. 2. To suck up; to drink - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - BON-ACCORD
Good will; good fellowship; agreement. - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - REPOSSESS
To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again . - UNPOSSESS
To be without, or to resign, possession of. - OVERMOISTURE
Excess of moisture. - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley.