Word Meanings - STRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Straw. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to STRE)

• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• STRAW
  To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Chaucer.
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• STRAWWORM
  A caddice worm.
• STRAWY
  Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.
• STRAWBERRY
  A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• OVERSTRAW
  To overstrew. Shak.
• WINDLESTRAE; WINDLESTRAW
  A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. Shelley.
• BEDSTRAW
  A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. -- White bedstraw is G. mollugo. (more info) 1. Straw put into a bed. Bacon.
• LADY'S BEDSTRAW
  The common bedstraw ; also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub , with white flowers in umbels.