Word Meanings - MENSTRUANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Subject to monthly flowing or menses.
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- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - SUBJECTLESS
Having no subject. - SUBJECTIVE
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes - SUBJECT
first part is L. subtus below, fr. sub under), subgiet, subject, F. sujet, from L. subjectus lying under, subjected, p.p. of subjicere, subicere, to throw, lay, place, or bring under; sub under + jacere to 1. Placed or situated under; lying below, - SUBJECT-MATTER
The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science - FLOW
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer. - MONTHLY
1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. 2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine. - FLOWAGE
An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows. - FLOWERAGE
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson. - FLOWERING
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns , with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow - FLOWERET
A small flower; a floret. Shak. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - BIMONTHLY
Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus. - INFLOW
To flow in. Wiseman. - INSUBJECTION
Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government. - BALL-FLOWER
An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. - OVERFLOWING
An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. - AFLOW
Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.