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.
• AGRIEF
  In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
• MIDNIGHT
  The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
• 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.