Word Meanings - PLANTCANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

• Sugared
  of Sugar
• FOLLOWINGSURFACE
  See Advancing-surface, above.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Firstborn
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• Quality
  The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
• Second-rate
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion.
• Sugaring
  of Sugar
• SECONDCLASS
  Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• First-class
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
• Rattoon
  One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.
• Second-sight
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
• Sugar-house
  A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
• SECONDRATE
  Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.

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