Word Meanings - MEGAPHYTON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

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• EXTINCT
  1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton. 2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud
• RANK
  proud; cf. D. rank slender, Dan. rank upright, erect, Prov. G. rank slender, Icel. rakkr slender, bold. The meaning seems to have been 1. Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• RANKER
  One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.
• RANKLE
  Etym: 1. To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke. 2. To
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• RANKLY
  With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• RANKNESS
  The condition or quality of being rank.
• LARGE
  Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully;
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• EXTINCTION
  1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc. 2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• CRANKLE
  To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• BELL CRANK
  A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.
• CRANKBIRD
  A small European woodpecker .
• ENRANK
  To place in ranks or in order. Shak.
• OUTRANK
  To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.
• INEXTINCT
  Not quenched; not extinct.
• BRANKURSINE
  Bear's-breech, or Acanthus. (more info) branca claw + L. ursinus belonging to a bear , i .e., bear's claw, because its leaves resemble the claws of a bear. Cf.
• FRANKLIN
  An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.
• FRANK-LAW
  The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.