Word Meanings - POLLENIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
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- FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - POLLENIN
A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. - POLLEN
The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - SUBSTANCE
See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, - FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings. - CERTAINNESS
Certainty. - FOUNDING
The art of smelting and casting metals. - POLLENIFEROUS
Producing pollen; polliniferous. - POLLENIZE
To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen. - SUBSTANCELESS
Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge. - FOUNDERSHAFT
The first shaft sunk. Raymond. - FOUNDRY
1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds. - POLLENED
Covered with pollen. Tennyson. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath. - PROFOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - PROFOUNDLY
In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak. - CONFOUNDEDLY
Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith. - REFOUND
1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re