Word Meanings - HOUND'S-TONGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

• BARBADOSBARBADOES
  A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident t
• Barbellulate
  Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
• COVERSIDE
  A region of country having covers; a hunting country.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Coverlet
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.
• Hooker
  One who, or that which, hooks.
• Shapely
  Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
• Barbarity
  The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
• BARBERFISH
  See Surgeon fish.
• COVERTBARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• Barbotine
  A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Coverlid
  A coverlet.
• Hooke's gearing
  Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
• Shaper
  One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
• Barbarized
  of Barbarize

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