Word Meanings - WINTERWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.

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• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• WINTER-GROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• WINTERKILL
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• WINTERGREEN
  A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf In America, the name wintergreen is given
• PRIORY
  A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the
• WINTERLY
  Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.
• WINTERTIDE
  Winter time. Tennyson.
• PRIORLY
  Previously. Geddes.
• WINTER
  OHG. wintar, G. winter, D. & Sw. vinter, Icel. vetr, Goth. wintrus; of uncertain origin; cf. Old Gallic vindo- white , OIr. find white. 1. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.
• APRIORITY
  The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
• WATER SPEEDWELL
  A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.