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Word Meanings - PATRONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.

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  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • FEMALE
    A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
  • NIGHTLY
    At night; every night.
  • NIGHTMAN
    One whose business is emptying privies by night.
  • PATRONIZING
    Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
  • PATRONIZER
    One who patronizes.
  • NIGHTLONG
    Lasting all night.
  • PATRONAL
    Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
  • GRIEFFUL
    Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.
  • NIGHTSHADE
    A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
  • NIGHTLESS
    Having no night.
  • GRIEFLESS
    Without grief. Huloet.
  • NIGHTTIME
    The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to Ant: daytime.
  • NIGHT-BLOOMING
    Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. See Note under Cereus.
  • NIGHTISH
    Of or pertaining to night.
  • FEMALE FERN
    a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
  • NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
    See ABOVE
  • NIGHT
    OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. 1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp.,
  • NIGHTDRESS
    A nightgown.
  • GRIEF
    gravis heavy; akin to Gr. , Skr. guru, Goth. karus. Cf. Barometer, 1. Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.;
  • KNIGHTLESS
    Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
  • ALLNIGHT
    Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon.
  • UNKNIGHT
    To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
  • MIDNIGHT SUN
    The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
  • SEVENNIGHT
    A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
  • FORTNIGHT
    The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also,
  • PATRONYMIC
    Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
  • MIDNIGHT
    The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
  • AGRIEF
    In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • KNIGHT BANNERET
    A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • ALE-KNIGHT
    A pot companion.

 

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