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ns a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.

To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. [prov. Eng.]

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-island cotton, a superior cotton of long fiber produced on those islands.

See Sallenders.

e of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.

h we call "reviling;" the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call "slander", or "Backbiting." Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson.

One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.

Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak.

A solan goose.

See Sallenders.

See Spandrel. [R.]

A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau. The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table- lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.

Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.

Land that is overflowed by tide water; hence, land near the sea.

iphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.…

Same as Tremando.

A foreigner; an outlander. [South Africa]

To deprive of lands.