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es which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling p…

Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.

ine substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.

off the enemy. -- To pick out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occ…

The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.

An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.

Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. Dryden.

n and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." Shak. Houses of office stuffed with plentee. Chaucer. The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world. Thomson.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.

the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

ieties are known, a and g. g-pyrone is the parent substance of several natural yellow dyestuffs.

A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.

A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.

gment prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red. -- Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum. -- Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra.

tc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthaleïn, fluoresceïn, and eosin.

A red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.