| ANACREONTIC | • anacreontic adj. (Prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically)… • anacreontic adj. Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous. • anacreontic n. (Poetry) A short lyrical piece about love and wine. |
| ANACREONTICALLY | • anacreontically adv. In an anacreontic manner. • ANACREONTICALLY adv. in the manner of a drinking song. |
| ANACREONTICS | • anacreontics n. Plural of anacreontic. • Anacreontics n. Plural of Anacreontic. • ANACREONTIC n. a drinking song or light lyric. |
| CONACRE | • conacre n. (Ireland) An agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage. • conacre n. (Ireland) A strip of land that is let under this system. • conacre v. (Ireland) To underlet a proportion of, for a single crop; said of a farm. |
| CONACRED | • conacred v. Simple past tense and past participle of conacre. • CONACRE v. of a tenant, to let small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing, also CORNACRE. |
| CONACREISM | • conacreism n. An agricultural system used in Ireland, in which land is let for a season in small patches or strips… • CONACREISM n. the system of conacre, subletting a portion of a farm, for a single crop. |
| CONACREISMS | • CONACREISM n. the system of conacre, subletting a portion of a farm, for a single crop. |
| CONACRES | • conacres n. Plural of conacre. • CONACRE v. of a tenant, to let small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing, also CORNACRE. |
| CORNACRE | • cornacre n. Alternative form of conacre. • CORNACRE n. the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing, also CONACRE. |
| CORNACRES | • cornacres n. Plural of cornacre. • CORNACRE n. the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crop or grazing, also CONACRE. |
| NACRE | • nacre n. (Obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. • nacre n. A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. • nacré adj. (Art) Having an iridescence like that of nacre, or mother-of-pearl. |
| NACRED | • nacred adj. Resembling mother-of-pearl. • NACRED adj. having mother-of-pearl. |
| NACREOUS | • nacreous adj. Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl). • nacreous adj. Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors. • NACREOUS adj. of or resembling mother-of-pearl, also NACROUS. |
| NACRES | • nacres n. Plural of nacre. • NACRE n. mother-of-pearl. |