Word Meanings - PATRONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.
Related words: (words related to PATRONESS)
- 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.