| amrinone | (n) a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium, Syn. Inocor |
| balsamroot | (n) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots |
| ramrod | (n) a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm |
| ramrod | (n) a harshly demanding overseer |
| ramrod | (n) a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm |
| shamrock pea | (n) trailing trifoliate Asiatic and African herb having cobalt blue flowers, Syn. Parochetus communis |
| steamroll | (v) make level or flat with a steamroller, Syn. steamroller, Example: steamroll the roads |
| steamroller | (n) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements, Syn. road roller |
| steamroller | (v) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure, Syn. steamroll, Example: The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat |
| steamroller | (v) proceed with great force, Syn. steamroll, Example: The new teacher tends to steamroller |
| steamroller | (v) crush with a steamroller as if to level, Example: steamroller the road |
| steamroller | (v) overwhelm by using great force, Syn. steamroll, Example: steamroller the opposition |
| water shamrock | (n) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface, Syn. marsh trefoil, bogbean, bog myrtle, Menyanthes trifoliata, buckbean |
| common wood sorrel | (n) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers, Syn. cuckoo bread, shamrock, Oxalis acetosella |
| hop clover | (n) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock, Syn. shamrock, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
| juggernaut | (n) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way, Syn. steamroller |
| white clover | (n) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage, Syn. Trifolium repens, shamrock, dutch clover |
| Amrita | ‖n. [ Skr. amrita. ] (Hind. Myth.) Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| balsamroot | n. a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having white-downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Ramrod | n. The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Shamrock | n. [ L. seamrog, seamar, trefoil, white clover, white honeysuckle; akin to Gael. seamrag. ] (Bot.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ The original plant was probably a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis Acetocella); but now the name is given to the white clover (Trifolium repens), and the black medic (Medicago lupulina). [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tramrail | n. (Mach.) An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Tramroad | n. [ Tram a coal wagon + road. ] A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron. [ 1913 Webster ] |
