Definition of ivy

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Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers..

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Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
Gill :: Gill (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.
Hederaceous :: Hederaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy..
Chivying :: Chivying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chiv.
Hederic :: Hederic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series..
Hederose :: Hederose (a.) Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (v. i.) To go away in haste.
Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Wardrobe :: Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.
Decade :: Decade (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy..
Crampon :: Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy..
Private :: Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
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