a.
Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.
Next Wordn.
In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages. →
n. pl.
High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing. →
a.
Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera. →
a.
Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. →
n.
The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts. →