Word Meanings - JAMESTOWNWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.

• Corruption
  The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
• Noticer
  One who notices.
• Thorntail
  A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
• Corruptionist
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.
• Corruptive
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• Virginia
  One of the States of the United States of America.
• Apple-faced
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple.
• Corruptless
  Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• APPLEFACED
  Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.
• Apple-jack
  Apple brandy.
• Corruptly
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
• Oftentide
  Frequently; often.
• APPLEJACK
  Apple brandy. [U.S.]
• Apple-john
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.
• Corruptness
  The quality of being corrupt.

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