Word Meanings - GLASSWORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.

• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Whichsoever
  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.
• JOINTFIR
  A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.
• Burnishing
  of Burnish
• Glassful
  The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
• Glasstonbury thorn
  A variety of the common hawthorn.
• Jointworm
  The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Yielded
  of Yield
• MAKEANDBREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• 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.
• Glass-gazing
  Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical.
• Glassologist
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• Makable
  Capable of being made.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Yielding
  of Yield
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.

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