Word Meanings - LOBELIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.
- Tobacco
An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. - Flowered
of Flower - Whiteblow
Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow. - White-limed
Whitewashed or plastered with lime. - Includible
Capable of being included. - Whitethroat
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c - Northeastwardly
Toward the northeast. - AMERICANPROTECTIVEASSOCIATION
A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. - Northwardly
Having a northern direction. - GREATGRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - Oftenness
Frequency. - WHITEFRIAR
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite. - Cardinalate
The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal. - Plantership
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - Colorist
One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. - Colorless
Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water. - Tobacconing
Smoking tobacco. - Flowering
of Flower - Whiteboy
A favorite.
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