Word Meanings - SOWBANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The red goosefoot , -- said to be fatal to swine.
Related words: (words related to SOWBANE)
- 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.