Word Meanings - AFRICANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

• MOTHEROFPEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• Color-blind
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• WHITEHOT
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Father-in-law
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
• Motherliness
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• Southernwood
  A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• MOTHEROFTHYME
  An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); -- called also wild thyme.
• Colorific
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Fatherland
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• Motherly
  Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.
• White-face
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Whiteness
  The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• MOTHERSDAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who designa

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