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The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.

Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.

A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray.…

A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

A large, fat variety of the namaycusa found in Lake Superior; - - called also siskawet, siskiwit.

A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.

A door latch. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck band, a latchstring. Burns. -- Sneck drawer, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly person; a cozener; a cheat; -- called also sneckdraw. -- Sneck drawing, lifting the latch.

r to render of an opposite quality. He bore his great commision in his look, But tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. Dryden.

ceremony adapted to impress with awe. The forms and solemnities of the last judgment. Atterburry.

daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed. Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. Pri…

An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.

o cease; to end. [Obs.] "The waves . . . their range surceast." Spenser. The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden.