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The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

kingly government." Swift. "The kingly couch." Shak. The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares. Cowper.

bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.

Companion for life. Hawthorne.

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

light. Shak. Specimens of New England humor laboriously light and lamentably mirthful. Hawthorne.

ppiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress. Hawthorne.

ous look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; - - usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. S…

nsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.

Having a margin. Hawthorne.

A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.

The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

The hawthorn.

The hawthorn.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

cay. Japan medlar (Bot.), the loquat. See Loquat. -- Neapolitan medlar (Bot.), a kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit.