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Word Meanings - BIRDSFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point. Bird's-foot trefoil. (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants (Lotus) with clawlike pods. L. corniculatas, with yellow flowers, is very common in Great Britain. (b) the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

  • Point d'appui
    See under Appui.
  • YELLOWGOLDS
    A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
  • Relation
    The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
  • Commons
    The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
  • Short-circuiting
    of Short-circuit
  • Shortness
    The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness
  • Curvity
    The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
  • Tippling-house
    A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.
  • Great-hearted
    High-spirited; fearless.
  • Yellowlegs
    Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
  • Haversian
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
  • FLOWERSTATE
    Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.
  • Plant-cane
    A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
  • POINTDAPPUI
    See under Appui.
  • Point-device
    Alt. of Point-devise
  • YELLOWSHANKSYELLOWSHINS
    See Yellolegs.
  • Relational
    Having relation or kindred; related.
  • Common sense
    See Common sense, under Sense.
  • Short-circuit
    To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

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