Word Meanings - SUPPLE-JACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . .

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A climbing shrub of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem. He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke. W. Irving. Note: This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies.

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  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• UNITERABLE
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• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SUPPLEMENT
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• CLIMB
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  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
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