Word Meanings - EUPHRASY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The plant eyesight , formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.

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• EUPHRASY
  The plant eyesight , formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PURGATORY
  Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PURGATORIAL; PURGATORIAN
  Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.
• NERVELESS
  1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• PURGATIVELY
  In a purgative manner.
• VISUALIZER
  One who visualizes or is proficient in visualization; esp.
• PLANT-CANE
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• PLANTED
  Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
• PURGERY
  The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• EXPURGATORIAL
  Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• EXPURGATOR
  One who expurgates or purifies.
• EXPURGATE
  To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge,
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• IMPLANTATION
  The act or process of implantating.
• COMPURGATION
  The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from
• EGGPLANT
  A plant , of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
• SUPERPURGATION
  Excessive purgation. Wiseman.