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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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..
Hederose :: Hederose (a.) Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy..
Private :: Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
Privily :: Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
Hederaceous :: Hederaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush..
Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..
Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
Jakes :: Jakes (n.) A privy.
Chivy :: Chivy (v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch..
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
Ivied :: Ivied (a.) Overgrown with ivy.
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
Crampon :: Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy..
Chevy :: Chevy (v. t.) See Chivy, v. t..
Ivy-mantled :: Ivy-mantled (a.) Covered with ivy.
Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
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..
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