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To lament. Gray.

0. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Gray. Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the…

The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

g. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.

The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

To wet and soil by dragging on the ground, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

l, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound. Where the beetle wheels his droning flight. T. Gray.

or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew. Gray.

epiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

es. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

e. Shak. With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Gray.

of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.