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r to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

, (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed…

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

tove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.