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commiseration(dictionary)

meadow (iou) and commiseration (oh)


meadow (iou)



meadow noun & verb.

A. noun.
Orig., a piece of land permanently covered with grass to be mown for use as hay; later, any piece of cultivated grassland. Also, a tract of low well-watered ground, esp. near a river. OE.
water-meadow: see WATER noun.
Land used for the cultivation of grass, esp. for hay. OE.
beaver meadow, a fertile tract of land left dry above a demolished beaver dam. N. Amer. M17.
A low level tract of uncultivated grassland, esp. along a river or in a marshy region near the sea. N. Amer. L17.
A feeding-ground of fish. M19.
Comb.: meadow Beauty any of several N. American plants of the genus Rhexia (family Melastomataceae), with four-petalled pink flowers; meadow bird = BOBOLINK; meadow brown a common brown and orange satyrid butterfly, Maniola jurtina; meadow buttercup a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, common in grassland; meadow cat's-tail = TIMOTHY; meadow crake = CORNCRAKE; meadow fescue a tall Eurasian fescue with flat leaves, Festuca pratensis, which is grown for pasture in Europe and N. America; meadow foam US the poached-egg flower, Limnanthes douglasii; meadow frog = leopard frog s.v. LEOPARD noun; meadow grass a grass of the genus Poa; meadow ground a piece of ground used for the cultivation of grass, esp. for hay; meadowland (a stretch of) land used for the cultivation of grass, esp. for hay; meadowlark N. Amer. any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, speckled brown with yellow underparts, esp. (more fully eastern meadowlark) S. magna and (more fully western meadowlark) S. neglecta; meadow mouse = meadow vole below; meadow mushroom an edible fungus, Agaricus campestris; meadow parsnip a yellow-flowered umbelliferous plant, Thaspium trifoliatum, of the US; meadow pipit a common European pipit, Anthus pratensis, inhabiting open country, heath, and moorland; also called titlark; meadow rue any of various plants constituting the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves like those of rue and apetalous flowers; spec. (more fully common meadow rue) Thalictrum flavum, a plant of riversides; meadow saffron a plant of the lily family, Colchicum autumnale, producing pale purple flowers like crocuses in autumn and broad leaves the following spring; also called naked ladies; meadow soft-grass: see soft-grass s.v. SOFT adjective; meadow VETCHLING; meadow vole a N. American vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus.
b. verb trans. Devote (land) to the production of grass, esp. for hay; use as meadow. M18.
meadowed adjective (a) provided with meadows (chiefly as 2nd elem. of comb., as
well-meadowed); (b) devoted to the production of grass, esp. for hay; used as meadow: M17.
meadowing noun (a) land used or suitable for the cultivation of grass; (b) the action of the verb: L16.
meadowless adjective L19.
meadowy adjective resembling a meadow L16.

commiseration (oh)



a feeling of sympathy for someone when something unpleasant has happened to them
::Congratulations to the winners, commiserations to the losers.
-see also condolence