Helen Fenton

Astragalus: Definition and part of speech

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Astragalus

  1. n. See Astragal, 1.
  2. n. The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.
  3. n. A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astrakhan: Definition and part of speech

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Astrakhan

  1. n. The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Astray: Definition and part of speech

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Astray

  1. adv. & a. Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.