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gwynhefarmullein: (n) Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum, typically with rosettes of greyish wooly leaves and tall erect racemes of flowers.
raceme: (n) A simple inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged on short, nearly equal, lateral pedicels at equal distances on an elongated axis.
laetation: (n) A manuring; also manure.
repastination: (n) The action or process of digging over again.
succedaneous: (adj) 1. Taking, or serving in, the place of something else; acting as a succedaneum or substitute.
2. Supplementary.
succedaneum: (n) A thing which (or rarely a person who) replaces or serves in the place of another; a substitute.
caryatid: (n) A female figure used as a column to support an entablature.
entablature: (n) In Architecture, that part of an order which is above the column; including the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice.
order: (n) In Gothic and Romanesque architecture: each of a series of mouldings on an arch.
architrave: (n) 1. The lowest division of the entablature, consisting of the main beam that rests immediately upon the abacus on the capital of a column; the epistyle.
2. Collective name for various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window.
3. Ornamental moulding around the exterior of an arch.
capital (1): (n) The head or top of a column or pillar.
abacus: (n) In Architecture, the upper member of the capital of a column, supporting the architrave; in Tuscan, Doric, and ancient Ionic orders, a square flat plate, but in the Corinthian and Composite, variously cut and ornamented.
epistyle: (n) = architrave.
frieze: (n) 1. That member in the entablature of an order which comes between the architrave and cornice; the hypotrachelium.
2. A band of painted or sculpted decoration
hypotrachelium: (n) The lower part or neck of the capital of a column; in the Doric order, the groove or sinking between the neck of the capital and the shaft.
cornice: (n) 1. A horizontal moulded projection which crowns or finishes a building or some part of a building; specifically the uppermost member of the entablature of an order surmounting the frieze.
verdure: (n) 1. The fresh green colour characteristic of flourishing vegetation; greenness, viridity.
2. Green vegetation; plants or trees, or parts of these, in a green and flourishing state, esp. green grass or herbage.
3. A rich tapestry ornamented with representations of trees or other vegetation.
4. Freshness or agreeable briskness of taste in fruits or liquors; also simply, taste, savour.
5. Smell; odour.
6. Fresh or flourishing condition.
virid: (adj) Green, verdant.
vitreous: (adj) 1. Of or belonging to, consisting or composed of, glass; of the nature of glass; glassy; esp. vitreous silica, an amorphous, translucent or transparent form of silica obtained by rapid quenching from the molten state.
2. In Geology and Minerology, resembling glass in brittleness, hardness, lustre, and mode of cleavage.
3. In Chemistry, resembling glass in composition.
selvage, also selvedge: (n) 1. The edge of a piece of woven material finished in such a manner as to prevent the ravelling out of the weft. Also, a narrow strip or list at the edge of a web of cloth, which is not finished like the rest of the cloth, being intended to be cut off or covered by the seam when the material is made up.
2. A marginal tract, border, edge.
3. An ornamental border or edging.
4. (v) to form a boundary or edging to.
weft: (n) The threads that cross from side to side of a web, at right angles to the warp threads with which they are interlaced.
list: (n) border, edging, strip; esp. the selvage, border, or edge of a cloth, usually of different material from the body of the cloth.
fluviatile: (adj) Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed or produced by the action of rivers.
raceme: (n) A simple inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged on short, nearly equal, lateral pedicels at equal distances on an elongated axis.
laetation: (n) A manuring; also manure.
repastination: (n) The action or process of digging over again.
succedaneous: (adj) 1. Taking, or serving in, the place of something else; acting as a succedaneum or substitute.
2. Supplementary.
succedaneum: (n) A thing which (or rarely a person who) replaces or serves in the place of another; a substitute.
caryatid: (n) A female figure used as a column to support an entablature.
entablature: (n) In Architecture, that part of an order which is above the column; including the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice.
order: (n) In Gothic and Romanesque architecture: each of a series of mouldings on an arch.
architrave: (n) 1. The lowest division of the entablature, consisting of the main beam that rests immediately upon the abacus on the capital of a column; the epistyle.
2. Collective name for various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window.
3. Ornamental moulding around the exterior of an arch.
capital (1): (n) The head or top of a column or pillar.
abacus: (n) In Architecture, the upper member of the capital of a column, supporting the architrave; in Tuscan, Doric, and ancient Ionic orders, a square flat plate, but in the Corinthian and Composite, variously cut and ornamented.
epistyle: (n) = architrave.
frieze: (n) 1. That member in the entablature of an order which comes between the architrave and cornice; the hypotrachelium.
2. A band of painted or sculpted decoration
hypotrachelium: (n) The lower part or neck of the capital of a column; in the Doric order, the groove or sinking between the neck of the capital and the shaft.
cornice: (n) 1. A horizontal moulded projection which crowns or finishes a building or some part of a building; specifically the uppermost member of the entablature of an order surmounting the frieze.
verdure: (n) 1. The fresh green colour characteristic of flourishing vegetation; greenness, viridity.
2. Green vegetation; plants or trees, or parts of these, in a green and flourishing state, esp. green grass or herbage.
3. A rich tapestry ornamented with representations of trees or other vegetation.
4. Freshness or agreeable briskness of taste in fruits or liquors; also simply, taste, savour.
5. Smell; odour.
6. Fresh or flourishing condition.
virid: (adj) Green, verdant.
vitreous: (adj) 1. Of or belonging to, consisting or composed of, glass; of the nature of glass; glassy; esp. vitreous silica, an amorphous, translucent or transparent form of silica obtained by rapid quenching from the molten state.
2. In Geology and Minerology, resembling glass in brittleness, hardness, lustre, and mode of cleavage.
3. In Chemistry, resembling glass in composition.
selvage, also selvedge: (n) 1. The edge of a piece of woven material finished in such a manner as to prevent the ravelling out of the weft. Also, a narrow strip or list at the edge of a web of cloth, which is not finished like the rest of the cloth, being intended to be cut off or covered by the seam when the material is made up.
2. A marginal tract, border, edge.
3. An ornamental border or edging.
4. (v) to form a boundary or edging to.
weft: (n) The threads that cross from side to side of a web, at right angles to the warp threads with which they are interlaced.
list: (n) border, edging, strip; esp. the selvage, border, or edge of a cloth, usually of different material from the body of the cloth.
fluviatile: (adj) Of or pertaining to a river or rivers; found, growing, or living in rivers; formed or produced by the action of rivers.
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Date: 2004-10-08 05:32 pm (UTC)I love finding new and different definitions for common words.
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