Word Meanings - PILIGEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.

• BEARSEAR
  A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Coverlet
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.
• BEARSFOOT
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Bearing rein
  A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
• Coverlid
  A coverlet.
• BEARSPAW
  A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament.
• Bearishness
  Behavior like that of a bear.
• Cover-point
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• BEARSTATE
  Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
• Coversed sine
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• BEARTRAPDAM
  A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.
• Bearable
  Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
• Bear's-breech
  See Acanthus, n., 1.
• Cover-shame
  Something used to conceal infamy.

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