Word Meanings - FOLIACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• FOLIACEOUS
  Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• SPIKE
  A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. Spike grass , either of two tall perennial American grasses having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. -- Spike rush. See under Rush. -- Spike
• INTERMIXTURE
  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• INTERMIXEDLY
  In a mixed manner.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• SPIKEFISH
  See SAILFISH
• SPIKENARD
  An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for
• SPIKED
  Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• INTERMIX
  To mix together; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• UNSPIKE
  To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• PRETEXTURE
  A pretext.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.