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which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. -- Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable o…

Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi- foliolate. Gray.

A waterfall; a cascade. [Prov. Eng.] To see the falls for force of the river Kent. T. Gray.

Arching over; overarched. Gray.

e European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.

nded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.

rk; to variegate; to diversify. Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. Spenser. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Shak.

any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

Leafy. Gray.

A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.

Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. Shak.

g to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. Gray.

Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. Gray.

Propped; supported by accessory organs. [R.] Gray.

An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.

Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.

Brown or grayish black; darkish. Sad and fuscous colors, as black or brown, or deep purple and the like. Burke.

valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.