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rimy
(encz) | rimy, adj: |
Rimy
(gcide) | Rimy \Rim"y\, a.
Abounding with rime; frosty.
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rimy
(wn) | rimy
adj 1: covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were
rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty,
rimed, rimy] |
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grimy
(encz) | grimy,špinavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
scrimy
(encz) | scrimy, adj: |
Drimys
(gcide) | Drimys \Dri"mys\ (dr[imac]"m[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. drimy`s
sharp, acrid.] (Bot.)
A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes
Winter's bark.
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Drimys aromatica
(gcide) | Drimys \Dri"mys\ (dr[imac]"m[i^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. drimy`s
sharp, acrid.] (Bot.)
A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes
Winter's bark.
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Drimys axillaris
(gcide) | Pepper \Pep"per\ (p[e^]p"p[~e]r), n. [OE. peper, AS. pipor, L.
piper, fr. Gr. pe`peri, pi`peri, akin to Skr. pippala,
pippali.]
1. A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried
berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
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Note: Common pepper, or black pepper, is made from the
whole berry, dried just before maturity; white pepper
is made from the ripe berry after the outer skin has
been removed by maceration and friction. It has less of
the peculiar properties of the plant than the black
pepper. Pepper is used in medicine as a carminative
stimulant.
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2. (Bot.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody
climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous
flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red
when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several
hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed
throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the
earth.
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3. Any plant of the genus Capsicum (of the Solanaceae
family, which are unrelated to Piper), and its fruit;
red pepper; chili pepper; as, the bell pepper and the
jalapeno pepper (both Capsicum annuum) and the
habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense); . These contain
varying levels of the substance capsaicin (C18H27O3N),
which gives the peppers their hot taste. The habanero is
about 25-50 times hotter than the jalapeno according to a
scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912. See also
Capsicum and http://www.chili-pepper-plants.com/.
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Note: The term pepper has been extended to various other
fruits and plants, more or less closely resembling the
true pepper, esp. to the common varieties of
Capsicum. See Capsicum, and the Phrases, below.
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African pepper, the Guinea pepper. See under Guinea.
Cayenne pepper. See under Cayenne.
Chinese pepper, the spicy berries of the {Xanthoxylum
piperitum}, a species of prickly ash found in China and
Japan.
Guinea pepper. See under Guinea, and Capsicum.
Jamaica pepper. See Allspice.
Long pepper.
(a) The spike of berries of Piper longum, an East Indian
shrub.
(b) The root of Piper methysticum (syn. {Macropiper
methysticum}) of the family Piperaceae. See Kava.
Malaguetta pepper, or Meleguetta pepper, the aromatic
seeds of the Amomum Melegueta, an African plant of the
Ginger family. They are sometimes used to flavor beer,
etc., under the name of grains of Paradise.
Red pepper. See Capsicum.
Sweet pepper bush (Bot.), an American shrub ({Clethra
alnifolia}), with racemes of fragrant white flowers; --
called also white alder.
Pepper box or Pepper caster, a small box or bottle, with
a perforated lid, used for sprinkling ground pepper on
food, etc.
Pepper corn. See in the Vocabulary.
Pepper elder (Bot.), a West Indian name of several plants
of the Pepper family, species of Piper and Peperomia.
Pepper moth (Zool.), a European moth (Biston betularia)
having white wings covered with small black specks.
Pepper pot, a mucilaginous soup or stew of vegetables and
cassareep, much esteemed in the West Indies.
Pepper root. (Bot.). See Coralwort.
pepper sauce, a condiment for the table, made of small red
peppers steeped in vinegar.
Pepper tree (Bot.), an aromatic tree (Drimys axillaris)
of the Magnolia family, common in New Zealand. See
Peruvian mastic tree, under Mastic.
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Drimys Winteri
(gcide) | Winter's bark \Win"ter's bark`\ (Bot.)
The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys Winteri syn. {Drymis
Winteri}) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern
Chile. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its
discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis
Drake, in 1577.
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Erimyzon sucetta
(gcide) | Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
to other bodies.
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2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
pump basket. --Boyle.
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4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
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5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string
attached to the center, which, when saturated with water
and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth
surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure,
with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be
thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a
plaything.
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6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of
a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment
from the body of the plant.
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7. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of North American
fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
Catostomidae; so called because the lips are
protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of
little value as food. The most common species of the
Eastern United States are the northern sucker
(Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker
(Catostomus teres), the hog sucker ({Catostomus
nigricans}), and the chub, or sweet sucker ({Erimyzon
sucetta}). Some of the large Western species are
called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and
suckerel.
(b) The remora.
(c) The lumpfish.
(d) The hagfish, or myxine.
(e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus)
closely allied to the kingfish
(a); -- called also bagre.
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8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
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They who constantly converse with men far above
their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if
thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker,
no branch. --Fuller.
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9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
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10. A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.
[Slang, U.S.]
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11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
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12. A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used
with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.
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11. Any thing or person; -- usually implying annoyance or
dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger
on the sucker. [Slang]
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Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp,
Cherry, etc.
Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.
Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.
Sucker tube (Zool.), one of the external ambulacral tubes
of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and
used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See
Spatangoid.
[1913 Webster]Chub \Chub\, n. [This word seems to signify a large or thick
fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh.
F. chabot chub.] (Zool.)
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp
family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus;
the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes
of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius,
Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different
fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
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Chub mackerel (Zool.), a species of mackerel ({Scomber
colias}) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic
coast, but absent in others; -- called also {bull
mackerel}, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
Chub sucker (Zool.), a fresh-water fish of the United
States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.
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Grimy
(gcide) | Grimy \Grim"y\, a. [Compar. Grimier; superl. Grimiest.]
Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
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Perimysial
(gcide) | Perimysial \Per`i*my"sial\, a. (Anat.)
(a) Surrounding a muscle or muscles.
(b) Of or pertaining to the perimysium.
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Perimysium
(gcide) | Perimysium \Per`i*my"si*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. peri` about + my^s
muscle.] (Anat.)
The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and
sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular
fibers.
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Primy
(gcide) | Primy \Prim"y\, a. [From Prime, a.]
Being in its prime. [Obs.] "The youth of primy nature."
--Shak.
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Rimy
(gcide) | Rimy \Rim"y\, a.
Abounding with rime; frosty.
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Trimyarian
(gcide) | Trimyarian \Trim`y*a"ri*an\, n. [Pref. tri + Gr. ?, ?, a
muscle.] (Zool.)
A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
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drimys
(wn) | Drimys
n 1: shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic
foliage [syn: Drimys, genus Drimys] |
drimys winteri
(wn) | Drimys winteri
n 1: South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a
light soft wood similar to basswood [syn: winter's bark,
winter's bark tree, Drimys winteri] |
genus drimys
(wn) | genus Drimys
n 1: shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic
foliage [syn: Drimys, genus Drimys] |
grimy
(wn) | grimy
adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed,
dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy] |
perimysium
(wn) | perimysium
n 1: the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of
muscle fibers |
scrimy
(wn) | scrimy
adj 1: dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and
secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine
2: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
[syn: grudging, niggardly, scrimy] |
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