Word Meanings - QUASSIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• AMARACUS
  A fragrant flower. Tennyson.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• TROPICALLY
  In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• AMARANTH
  A genus of ornamental annual plants of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers. 2. A color inclining to purple. (more info) its flowers do not soon wither: cf. F. amarante. The spelling with th seems to be due to confusion with
• AMARANT
  Amaranth, 1. Milton.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• BITTERWORT
  The yellow gentian , which has a very bitter taste.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• DULCAMARA
  A plant . See Bittersweet, n.,
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• CAMARASAURUS
  A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.