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Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy

Alehoof :: Alehoof (n.) Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

Gill :: Gill (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names..

Tivy :: Tivy (adv.) With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.

Privy :: Privy (n.) 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..

Chivying :: Chivying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chiv.

Bush :: Bush (n.) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself..

Privy :: Privy (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Wardrobe :: Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.

Tunhoof :: Tunhoof (n.) Ground ivy; alehoof.

Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A privy.

Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.

Transcribe :: Transcribe (v. t.) To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter..

Hederiferous :: Hederiferous (a.) Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

Decadist :: Decadist (n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist..

Private :: Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

Privy :: Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.

Water-closet :: Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Latrine :: Latrine (n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc..

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