Word Meanings - SOUTHERNWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.

• Havener
  A harbor master.
• Makeless
  Matchless.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• Aromatic
  Alt. of Aromatical
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Aromatical
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Artemisia
  A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Make-up
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
• Foliage
  Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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