Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Ball-flower (n.) An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. |
Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Essence (n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it |
Essence (n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence) |
Essence (n.) Constituent substance. |
Essence (n.) A being |
Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter |
Essence (n.) Perfume |
Essence (v. t.) To perfume |
Flower (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant |
Flower (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs |
Flower (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything |
Flower (n.) Grain pulverized |
Flower (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation |
Flower (n.) A figure of speech |
Flower (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. |
Flower (n.) Menstrual discharges. |
Flower (v. i.) To blossom |
Flower (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition. |
Flower (v. i.) To froth |
Flower (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation. |
Flower (v. t.) To embellish with flowers |
Flower-de-luce (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. |
Flower-fence (n.) A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers |
Flower-gentle (n.) A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). |
Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water (a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water (a.) Unskilled |
Gang-flower (n.) The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. |
Joseph's flower () A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify. |
July-flower (n.) See Gillyflower. |
Napha water () A perfume distilled from orange flowers. |
Noon-flower (n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Rose water () Water tinctured with roses by distillation. |
Rose-water (a.) Having the odor of rose water |
Selters water () A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid. |