Word Meanings - FIREWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Burnish
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• 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.
• Smallage
  A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• Burnisher
  One who burnishes.
• Burnoose
  Alt. of Burnous
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Smallclothes
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• Burnous
  A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Burnstickle
  A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

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