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Word Meanings - SOWBANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The red goosefoot , -- said to be fatal to swine.

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  • GOOSEFOOT
    A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
  • FATALNESS
    , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
  • FATALISTIC
    Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
  • FATALITY
    1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
  • SWINEBREAD
    The truffle.
  • SWINEHERD
    A keeper of swine.
  • SWINECOTE
    A hogsty.
  • SWINECASE
    A hogsty.
  • SWINESTONE
    See STINKSTONE
  • SWINE-POX
    A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.
  • FATALISM
    The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
  • SWINEFISH
    The wolf fish.
  • SWINERY
    See PIGGERY
  • SWINEPIPE
    The European redwing.
  • FATALLY
    1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. 2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
  • FATALIST
    One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
  • SWINE
    Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
  • SWINECRUE
    A hogsty.
  • FATAL
    1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. That fatal screech owl to
  • SWINESTY
    A sty, or pen, for swine.

 

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