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A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

See Shy, to throw.

imp. & p. p. of Shy.

See Shyly.

See Shyness.

A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

Having a thick and bushy head of hair.

Wild; timid; shy. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Miry; slushy.

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] Pennant.

are white, the top of the head and the ear coverts are black. -- Snow plant (Bot.), a fleshy parasitic herb (Sarcodes sanguinea) growing in the coniferous forests of California. It is all of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.

Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, si…

Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.