Word Meanings - FLYAWAYGRASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Grassplot
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
• Light-footed
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
• Light-o'-love
  An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
• GREATBELLIED
  Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.
• LIGHTLEGGED
  Nimble; swift of foot. Sir P. Sidney.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Grass tree
  An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat
• Lighted
  of Light
• Lightful
  Full of light; bright.
• Lightroom
  A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
• GREATGRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• LIGHTMINDED
  Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate. -- Light"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Grassy
  Covered with grass; abounding with grass; as, a grassy lawn.
• Lighting
  of Light

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