Definition of holly

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Holly (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas..

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Right :: Right (adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant..
Full :: Full (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight..
Aorist :: Aorist (n.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate..
Althea :: Althea (n.) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks..
All :: All (adv.) Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement..
Numbness :: Numbness (n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion..
Mahonia :: Mahonia (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage..
Disaffected :: Disaffected (a.) Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.
Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212ยก Fah
Paraguay Tea :: Paraguay tea () See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly..
Ilicin :: Ilicin (n.) The bitter principle of the holly.
Up :: Up (adv.) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent..
Totally :: Totally (adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man..
In :: In (prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess)..
Forgive :: Forgive (v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects..
Rapt :: Rapt (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation..
Forleave :: Forleave (v. t.) To leave off wholly.
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