Word Meanings - THORNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

• Crownwork
  A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
• Roughing-in
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• Spinescent
  Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines.
• SPINESCENCE
  The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
• Roughings
  Rowen.
• Roughish
  Somewhat rough.
• Thornset
  Set with thorns.
• Roughcast
  To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
• Roughleg
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
• Crowning
  of Crown
• Roughcaster
  One who roughcasts.
• Rough-legged
  Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
• CROWNCOLONY
  A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.

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