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Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

Equal share. [Obs.] Myself will bear . . . coportion of your pack. Spenser.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

A train of attendants; a procession.

mbly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

See Legislature, Portugal.

The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

sisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

Mullein.

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.