Word Meanings - TAMARIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 .

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• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• TAMARIC
  A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 .
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• TAMARISK
  Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree
• SHRUBBY
  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• HEATHY
  Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• SEA HEATH
  A low perennial plant resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.