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Word Meanings - REGENTESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female regent. Cotgrave.

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  • 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
  • REGENTESS
    A female regent. Cotgrave.
  • REGENTSHIP
    The office of a regent; regency.
  • 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.
  • REGENT DIAMOND
    A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also
  • REGENT
    1. Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale. 2. Exercising vicarious authority. Milton. Queen regent. See under Queen, n.
  • FEMALE RHYMES
    double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
  • INTERREGENT
    A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.
  • CO-REGENT
    A joint regent or ruler.
  • NONREGENT
    A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

 

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