Word Meanings - BLOODROOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

• Whitester
  A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
• Beardlessness
  The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
• Spread
  of Spread
• BEARBERE
  Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]
• Called
  of Call
• Spright
  Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
• PLANTCANE
  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.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Springer
  One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
• WHITEEYE
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. coerulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-e
• Callow
  Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
• Sprint
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
• WHITESLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• Flower-gentle
  A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).
• Spruced
  of Spruce
• Painture
  The art of painting.
• Whitebelly
  The American widgeon, or baldpate.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Whitehead
  The blue-winged snow goose.

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