Word Meanings - POTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
Related words: (words related to POTANCE)
- VERGER
One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building. - LOWERMOST
Lowest. - VERGETTE
Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry. - VERGEBOARD
The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - LOWERY
Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - BEAR
produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - LOWER
Compar. of Low, a. - BEARDIE
The bearded loach of Europe. - BEARDLESS
1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. - BEARING CLOTH
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. - VERGENCY
The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays. Humphrey Lloyd. (more info) 1. The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach. - BEARD
Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. 4. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 5. That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - 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. - 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 - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - 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. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.