Word Meanings - LOVELOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.

• James's powder
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
• Jamestown weed
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.
• Hangbird
  The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.
• Prominently
  In a prominent manner.
• Elizabethan
  Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
• Hang-bies
  of Hang-by
• FASHIONMONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• FASHIONMONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.
• Fashioned
  of Fashion
• Fashioning
  of Fashion
• HANGERON
  One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.
• Fashionable
  Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

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