Word Meanings - FILIPINO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood. Then there are Filipinos, -- "children of the country," they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood. The Century.

• Country
  A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
• Specifically
  In a specific manner.
• Suppositive
  Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed.
• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Therefore
  For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.
• Bloodwood
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Touched
  of Touch
• Without
  On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• COUNTRYBASE
  Same as Prison base.
• Country-base
  Same as Prison base.
• Specificalness
  The quality of being specific.
• Suppositor
  An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
• Bloodroot
  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 rootstoc
• Therefrom
  From this or that.
• Bloodwort
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyein
• Touching
  of Touch

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