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A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Minuteman
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• Severalty
  A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Minuteness
  The quality of being minute.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
• Polygonum
  A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.
• Stemson
  A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
• Angularity
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• Angularly
  In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• Reflexed
  Bent backward or outward.
• STEMSTEEM
  To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.
• Angularness
  The quality of being angular.
• Havener
  A harbor master.

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