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Word Meanings - SUNDROPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of the several species of Kneiffia, esp. K. fruticosa , of the Evening-primrose family, having flowers that open by daylight.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • EVENMINDED
    Having equanimity.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • EVENT
    1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • EVENTILATION
    The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • EVENTFUL
    Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
  • EVENTIDE
    The time of evening; evening. Spenser.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • PRIMROSE LEAGUE
    A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • EVENTRATION
    A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling.
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • EVENTLESS
    Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
  • EVENER
    1. One who, or that which makes even. 2. In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
  • EVENE
    To happen. Hewyt.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • SEVENNIGHT
    A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
  • REVENDICATION
    The act of revendicating. Vattel
  • IMPREVENTABILITY
    The state or quality of being impreventable.
  • PREVENIENCE
    The act of going before; anticipation.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • PREVENTABLE
    Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
  • PREVENTINGLY
    So as to prevent or hinder.
  • UNSEVEN
    To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven. "To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome." Fuller.

 

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