Word Meanings - CHRISTSTHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

• Vulgarism
  Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• CROWNPOST
  Same as King-post.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Christianness
  Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.
• Crowning
  of Crown
• Founding
  of Found
• Fruitage
  Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
• Prickly
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
• BEARSEAR
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• CROWNSAW
  A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
• Considered
  of Consider
• Crowner
  One who, or that which, crowns.
• Foundation
  The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• Fruiter
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• Readily
  In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.
• Bearskin
  The skin of a bear.
• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

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