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A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon. Hyacinth bean (Bot.), a climbing leguminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash.

Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc.

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

Of or pertaining to ichonography; describing a ground plot.

A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.

The act or process of inscribing.

A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.

he act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.

the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely related to the Virginia creeper. -- Poison ivy (Bot.), an American woody creeper (Rhus Toxicodendron), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous…

s or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

er on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin.

Shaking; disturbing; discordant. "A jarring sound." Dryden.

Playful; frisky. [R.] She is never sad, and yet not jiggish. Habington.

The act or practice of jobbing.