Word Meanings - ASTRINGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

• Butterbird
  The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
• Butterweight
  Over weight.
• Contracture
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• Drawfiling
  The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
• Drawshave
  See Drawing knife.
• Laxative
  Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
• Oppositipetalous
  Placed in front of a petal.
• Butterbump
  The European bittern.
• Butterwort
  A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly
• Drawgear
  A harness for draught horses.
• Drawspring
  The spring to which a drawbar is attached.
• Laxativeness
  The quality of being laxative.
• Oppositisepalous
  Placed in front of a sepal.
• Astringent
  Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
• Butterbur
  A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter.
• Buttery
  Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
• Drawing
  of Draw
• Drawgloves
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers.

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