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Ivies
(gcide) | Ivy \I"vy\, n.; pl. Ivies. [AS. [imac]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi,
ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Hedera (Hedera helix), common in
Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and
mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the
berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees
by rootlike fibers.
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The clasping ivy where to climb. --Milton.
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Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. --Milton.
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American ivy. (Bot.) See Virginia creeper.
English ivy (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy
proper (Hedera helix).
German ivy (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent
stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of
Senecio (Senecio scandens).
Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma).
Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain.
Ivy owl (Zool.), the barn owl.
Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. --Tennyson.
Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ampelopsis
tricuspidata}), closely related to the Virginia creeper.
Poison ivy (Bot.), an American woody creeper ({Rhus
Toxicodendron}), with trifoliate leaves, and
greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the
touch for most persons.
To pipe in an ivy leaf, to console one's self as best one
can. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
West Indian ivy, a climbing plant of the genus
Marcgravia.
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priviesť
(msas) | priviesť
- bring |
priviest
(msasasci) | priviest
- bring |
civies
(encz) | civies, |
privies
(encz) | privies, |
civies
(gcide) | civies \civies\ n.
civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform.
Syn: civvies.
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Kivikivies
(gcide) | Kivikivi \Ki`vi*ki"vi\, Kiwikiwi \Ki`wi*ki"wi\, n.; pl.
Kivikivies (?), Kiwikiwies. (Zool.)
Any species of Apteryx, esp. Apteryx australis; -- so
called in imitation of its notes. More commonly called
kiwi. See Apteryx.
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Nativies
(gcide) | Nativity \Na*tiv"i*ty\, n.; pl. Nativies. [F. nativit['e], L.
nativitas. See Native, and cf. Na["i]vet['e].]
1. The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the
circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner,
etc. --Chaucer.
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I have served him from the hour of my nativity.
--Shak.
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Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity.
--Ruth ii. 11.
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These in their dark nativity the deep
Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
--Milton.
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2. (Fine Arts) (capitalized) A picture representing or
symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form
is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and
an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
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3. (Astrol.) A representation of the positions of the
heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to
indicate one's future destinies; a horoscope.
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The Nativity, the birth or birthday of Christ; Christmas
day.
To cast one's nativity or To calculate one's nativity
(Astrol.), to find out and represent the position of the
heavenly bodies at the time of one's birth.
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Privies
(gcide) | Privy \Priv"y\, n.; pl. Privies.
1. (Law) A partaker; a person having an interest in any
action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate
created by another; a person having an interest derived
from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a
party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished
from party. --Burrill. --Wharton.
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2. A necessary house or place for performing excretory
functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
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civies
(wn) | civies
n 1: civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform [syn:
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PRIVIES
(bouvier) | PRIVIES. Persons who are partakers, or have an interest in any action or
thing, or any relation to another. Wood, Inst. b. 2, c. 3, p. 255; 2 Tho.
Co. Lit. 506 Co. Lit. 271, a.
2. There aye several kinds of privies, namely, privies in blood, as the
heir is to the ancestor; privies in representation, as is the executor or
administrator to the deceased privies in estate, as the relation between the
donor and donee, lessor and lessee; privies in respect to contracts; and
privies on account of estate and contract together. Tho. Co. Lit. 506;
Prest. Con v. 327 to 345. Privies have also been divided into privies in
fact, and privies in law. 8 Co. 42 b. Vide Vin. Ab. Privily; 5 Coin. Dig.
347; Ham. on Part. 131; Woodf. Land. & Ten. 279, 1 Dane's Ab. c. 1, art. 6.
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