Word Meanings - LEAFLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage. "Leafless groves." Cowper. -- Leaf"less*ness, n. Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, n., 1 and 2.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• 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.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• BEAR'S-EAR
  A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
• BEARDLESSNESS
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• BEARABLE
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• 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.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• 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
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.