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Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obs.] Shak.

The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

d hill, and whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead. -- Golden robin. (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognitio…

To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel. Ainsworth.

weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop, pasture and hay. Agrostis vulgaris. Red-topped buffalo grass, forage. Northwest. Poa tenuifolia. Reed canary grass, of slight value. Phalaris arundinacea. Reed meadow grass, hay. North. Glyceria aquatica. Ribbon grass, a striped leaved form of Reed…

pigeons which live largely upon the ground, as the tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), of the Samoan Islands, and the crowned pigeon, or goura. See Goura, and Ground dove (above). -- Ground pine. (Bot.) (a) A blue-flowered herb of the genus Ajuga (A. Chamæpitys), formerly included in the genus Teucrium or…

the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. Hanmer.

A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.

The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden.

ilbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

s), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- Heath throstle (Zoöl.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

athing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. Prior. The heaving plain of ocean. Byron.

fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.

ld not thy peace, and be not still. Ps. lxxxiii. 1. Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.