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.

• 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 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
• Curveted
  of Curvet
• Shortsighted
  Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
• Curvograph
  An arcograph.
• Trefoil
  Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
• Great-heartedness
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.

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