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Spica
(gcide) | Spica \Spi"ca\, n.; pl. Spicae. [L., an ear, as of corn.]
1. (Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and
crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from
its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
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2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the
constellation Virgo.
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spica
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n 1: the brightest star in Virgo |
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auspicate
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despicability
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despicable
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despicableness
(encz) | despicableness,mrzkost n: Zdeněk Broždespicableness,ohavnost n: Zdeněk Broždespicableness,opovrženíhodnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
despicably
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perspicacious
(encz) | perspicacious,bystrý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
perspicaciously
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perspicaciousness
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perspicacity
(encz) | perspicacity,bystrost n: Zdeněk Brožperspicacity,ostrovtip n: [kniž.] stonekvperspicacity,pronikavost n: Zdeněk Brožperspicacity,prozíravost n: Zdeněk Brož |
spicate
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Actaea spicata
(gcide) | Herb \Herb\ ([~e]rb or h[~e]rb; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF.
herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh`
food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]
1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent,
but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
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Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower
the second season, and then die; perennial herbs
produce new stems year after year.
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2. Grass; herbage.
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And flocks
Grazing the tender herb. --Milton.
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Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet.
Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Act[ae]a spicata),
whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The
name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal
fern, the wood betony, etc.
Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of
St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr.
Prior.
Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.
Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite.
Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the
trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed
poisonous.
Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium ({Geranium
Robertianum}.)
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Agrostis Spica-ventis
(gcide) | Windlestrae \Win"dle*strae`\, Windlestraw \Win"dle*straw`\, n.
(Bot.)
A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. {Agrostis
Spica-ventis}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Shelley.
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Auspicate
(gcide) | Auspicate \Aus"pi*cate\, v. t.
1. To foreshow; to foretoken. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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2. To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate;
-- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the
auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any
important business.
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They auspicate all their proceedings. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]Auspicate \Aus"pi*cate\, a. [L. auspicatus, p. p. of auspicari
to take auspices, fr. auspex a bird seer, an augur, a contr.
of avispex; avis bird + specere, spicere, to view. See
Aviary, Spy.]
Auspicious. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Danthonia spicata
(gcide) | Oat \Oat\ ([=o]t), n.; pl. Oats ([=o]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS.
[=a]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its
edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in
the plural and in a collective sense.
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2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Animated oats or Animal oats (Bot.), A grass ({Avena
sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally
twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
automatic motion.
Oat fowl (Zool.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its
feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]
Oat grass (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, {Danthonia
sericea}, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in
parts of the United States.
To feel one's oats,
(a) to be conceited or self-important. [Slang]
(b) to feel lively and energetic.
To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
--Thackeray.
Wild oats (Bot.), a grass (Avena fatua) much resembling
oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
cultivated oats.
[1913 Webster]Poverty \Pov"er*ty\ (p[o^]v"[~e]r*t[y^]), n. [OE. poverte, OF.
povert['e], F. pauvret['e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper
poor. See Poor.]
1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or
scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
"Swathed in numblest poverty." --Keble.
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The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
--Prov. xxiii.
21.
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2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or
desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil;
poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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Poverty grass (Bot.), a name given to several slender
grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata)
which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
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Syn: Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want;
scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness.
Usage: Poverty, Indigence, Pauperism. Poverty is a
relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be
competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies
extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution.
Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public
charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded
state.
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Despicability
(gcide) | Despicability \Des`pi*ca*bil"i*ty\, n.
Despicableness. [R.] --Carlyle.
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Despicable
(gcide) | Despicable \Des"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari
to despise; akin to despicere. See Despise.]
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile;
worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a
despicable gift.
Syn: Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry;
sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
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Despicableness
(gcide) | Despicableness \Des"pi*ca*ble*ness\, n.
The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness;
worthlessness.
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Despicably
(gcide) | Despicably \Des"pi*ca*bly\, adv.
In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably
stingy.
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Epilobium spicatum
(gcide) | Rosebay \Rose"bay`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) the oleander. [Obs.]
(b) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron. [U.S.]
(c) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple
flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called
also great willow herb.
[1913 Webster]Willow-herb \Wil"low-herb`\, n. (Bot.)
A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow
willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is
sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.
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Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria)
with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.
[1913 Webster]Fireweed \Fire"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very
troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
(b) The great willow-herb (Epilobium spicatum).
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Haruspication
(gcide) | Haruspication \Ha*rus`pi*ca"tion\
(h[.a]*r[u^]s`p[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
See Haruspicy. --Tylor.
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Inauspicate
(gcide) | Inauspicate \In*aus"pi*cate\, a. [L. inauspicatus; pref. in- not
+ auspicatus, p. p. auspicari. See Auspicate.]
Inauspicious. [Obs.] --Sir G. Buck.
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Lavandula Spica
(gcide) | Lavender \Lav"en*der\, n. [OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda
lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It.
lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in
bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf.
Lavender.]
1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula
(Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It
yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The {Spike
lavender} (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of
spike), used in the arts.
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2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and
more delicate than lilac.
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Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub
(Santolina Cham[ae]cyparissus) of the Mediterranean
region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used
to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called {ground
cypress}.
Lavender water, a perfume, toilet water, or shaving lotion
containing the essential oil of lavender, and sometimes
the essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.
To lay in lavender.
(a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender.
(b) To pawn. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]Aspic \As"pic\, n. [F., a corrupt. of spic (OF. espi, F.
['e]pi), L. spica (spicum, spicus), ear, spike. See Spike.]
A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which
produces a volatile oil. See Spike.
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Lavandula spica
(gcide) | Lavender \Lav"en*der\, n. [OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda
lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It.
lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in
bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf.
Lavender.]
1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula
(Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It
yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The {Spike
lavender} (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of
spike), used in the arts.
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2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and
more delicate than lilac.
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Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub
(Santolina Cham[ae]cyparissus) of the Mediterranean
region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used
to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called {ground
cypress}.
Lavender water, a perfume, toilet water, or shaving lotion
containing the essential oil of lavender, and sometimes
the essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.
To lay in lavender.
(a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender.
(b) To pawn. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]Aspic \As"pic\, n. [F., a corrupt. of spic (OF. espi, F.
['e]pi), L. spica (spicum, spicus), ear, spike. See Spike.]
A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which
produces a volatile oil. See Spike.
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Lavendula Spica
(gcide) | Spike \Spike\, n. [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See
Spikenard.] (Bot.)
Spike lavender. See Lavender.
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Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil
extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or
aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in
veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of
turpentine, which it much resembles.
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Penicillaria spicata
(gcide) | Pearl \Pearl\, n. [OE. perle, F. perle, LL. perla, perula,
probably fr. (assumed) L. pirulo, dim. of L. pirum a pear.
See Pear, and cf. Purl to mantle.]
1. (Zool.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a
brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle,
or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve
mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river
mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually
due to a secretion of shelly substance around some
irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as
nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
Note: Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine
luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and at one time
compared in value with the precious stones. Since
development of cultured pearls, the relative value has
diminished somewhat, though the best pearls are still
expensive, and natural pearls even more so. Artificial
pearls may be made of various materials, including
material similar to that of natural pearls; these are
less expensive than natural or cultured pearls. See
cultured pearl, below.
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2. Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl;
something very precious.
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I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.
--Shak.
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And those pearls of dew she wears. --Milton.
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3. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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4. (Zool.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
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5. (Zool.) A light-colored tern.
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6. (Zool.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur
on a deer's antler.
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7. A whitish speck or film on the eye. [Obs.] --Milton.
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8. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some
liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
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9. (Print.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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Ground pearl. (Zool.) See under Ground.
Pearl barley, kernels of barley, ground so as to form
small, round grains.
Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters.
Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some
kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to
be sewed on lace.
Pearl eye, cataract. [R.]
Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color.
Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata).
Pearl moss. See Carrageen.
Pearl moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Margaritia; --
so called on account of its pearly color.
Pearl oyster (Zool.), any one of several species of large
tropical marine bivalve mollusks of the genus
Meleagrina, or Margaritifera, found in the East Indies
(especially at Ceylon), in the Persian Gulf, on the coast
of Australia, and on the Pacific coast of America. Called
also pearl shell, and pearl mussel.
Pearl powder. See Pearl white, below.
Pearl sago, sago in the form of small pearly grains.
Pearl sinter (Min.), fiorite.
Pearl spar (Min.), a crystallized variety of dolomite,
having a pearly luster.
Pearl white.
(a) Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; -- used
chiefly as a cosmetic.
(b) A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Berlin
blue.
cultured pearl, a pearl grown by a pearl oyster into which
a round pellet has been placed, to serve as the seed for
more predictable growth of the pearl. The pellet is
usually made from mother-of-pearl, and additional layers
of nacre are deposited onto the seed by the oyster. Such
pearls, being more easily obtained than natural pearls
from wild oysters, are less expensive.
[1913 Webster]millet \mil"let\ (m[i^]l"l[e^]t), n. [F., dim. of mil, L.
milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil.] (Bot.)
The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an
abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of
Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and
Setaria Italica.
Note:
Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.
Egyptian millet or
East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata.
Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.)
Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing
annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and
bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass.
Texas millet is Panicum Texanum.
Wild millet, or
Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in
woods.
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Perspicable
(gcide) | Perspicable \Per"spi*ca*ble\ (p[~e]r"sp[i^]*k[.a]*b'l), a. [L.
perspicabilis, fr. perspicere.]
Discernible. [Obs.] --Herbert.
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Perspicacious
(gcide) | Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\ (p[~e]r`sp[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]s),
a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf.
F. perspicace. See Perspective.]
1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp
of sight.
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2. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.
[1913 Webster] -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. --
Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.
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Perspicaciously
(gcide) | Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\ (p[~e]r`sp[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]s),
a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf.
F. perspicace. See Perspective.]
1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp
of sight.
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2. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.
[1913 Webster] -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. --
Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.
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Perspicaciousness
(gcide) | Perspicacious \Per`spi*ca"cious\ (p[~e]r`sp[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]s),
a. [L. perspicax, -acis, fr. perspicere to look through: cf.
F. perspicace. See Perspective.]
1. Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp
of sight.
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2. Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.
[1913 Webster] -- Per`spi*ca"cious*ly, adv. --
Per`spi*ca"cious*ness, n.
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Perspicacity
(gcide) | Perspicacity \Per`spi*cac"i*ty\
(p[~e]r`sp[i^]*k[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. perspicacitas: cf.
F. perspicacit['e]. See Perspicacious.]
The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of
intelligence; acute discernment. --Sir T. Browne.
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Perspicacy
(gcide) | Perspicacy \Per"spi*ca*cy\ (p[~e]r"sp[i^]*k[.a]*s[y^]), n.
Perspicacity. [Obs.]
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Spica
(gcide) | Spica \Spi"ca\, n.; pl. Spicae. [L., an ear, as of corn.]
1. (Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and
crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from
its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
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2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the
constellation Virgo.
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Spicae
(gcide) | Spica \Spi"ca\, n.; pl. Spicae. [L., an ear, as of corn.]
1. (Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and
crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from
its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
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2. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the
constellation Virgo.
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Spicate
(gcide) | Spicate \Spi"cate\, Spicated \Spi"ca*ted\, a. [L. spicatus, p.
p. of spicare furnish with spikes, or ears, fr. spica a
spike, or ear.] (Bot.)
Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or
spikes. --Lee.
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Spicated
(gcide) | Spicate \Spi"cate\, Spicated \Spi"ca*ted\, a. [L. spicatus, p.
p. of spicare furnish with spikes, or ears, fr. spica a
spike, or ear.] (Bot.)
Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or
spikes. --Lee.
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Suspicable
(gcide) | Suspicable \Sus"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. suspacabilis, fr. suspicari
to suspect, akin to suspicere. See Suspect, v. t.]
Liable to suspicion; suspicious. [Obs.]
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It is a very suspicable business. --Dr. H. more.
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acer spicatum
(wn) | Acer spicatum
n 1: small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in
autumn [syn: mountain maple, mountain alder, {Acer
spicatum}] |
auspicate
(wn) | auspicate
v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
prefigure, forecast, predict]
2: commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck; "They
auspicated the trip with a bottle of champagne" |
austrotaxus spicata
(wn) | Austrotaxus spicata
n 1: large yew native to New Caledonia; cultivated in eastern
Australia and New Zealand and Hawaii [syn: {New Caledonian
yew}, Austrotaxus spicata] |
blechnum spicant
(wn) | Blechnum spicant
n 1: fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America;
often cultivated for deer browse [syn: deer fern,
Blechnum spicant] |
despicability
(wn) | despicability
n 1: unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn:
baseness, sordidness, contemptibility,
despicableness, despicability] |
despicable
(wn) | despicable
adj 1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable
as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of
slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn:
despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy,
worthless, wretched] |
despicableness
(wn) | despicableness
n 1: unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn:
baseness, sordidness, contemptibility,
despicableness, despicability] |
despicably
(wn) | despicably
adv 1: in a despicable manner; "he acted despicably" |
hexalectris spicata
(wn) | Hexalectris spicata
n 1: orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins;
southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States [syn:
crested coral root, Hexalectris spicata] |
mentha spicata
(wn) | Mentha spicata
n 1: common garden herb having clusters of small purplish
flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring [syn:
spearmint, Mentha spicata] |
perspicacious
(wn) | perspicacious
adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to
be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and
thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions";
"a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to
educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient]
2: mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed
not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be
prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too
perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"
[syn: clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious] |
perspicaciousness
(wn) | perspicaciousness
n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business
dealings) [syn: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity,
perspicaciousness] |
perspicacity
(wn) | perspicacity
n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business
dealings) [syn: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity,
perspicaciousness]
2: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
and to draw sound conclusions [syn: judgment, judgement,
sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity] |
podocarpus spicata
(wn) | Podocarpus spicata
n 1: conifer of Australia and New Zealand [syn: matai, {black
pine}, Prumnopitys taxifolia, Podocarpus spicata] |
spicate
(wn) | spicate
adj 1: having or relating to spikes; "spicate inflorescence" |
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