Word Meanings - WATERTORCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil. Dr. Prior.

• Torchon lace
  a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Torchwood
  The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
• Commonty
  A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.
• Torchwort
  The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
• Commonable
  Held in common.
• Commonweal
  Commonwealth.
• Commonage
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
• Commonwealth
  A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Commonalties
  of Commonalty
• Latifoliate
  Alt. of Latifolious

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