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Same as Amadavat.

The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

Same as Avocet.

strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

Same as Awesome.

c. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

ary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

Same as Aye.

Same as Nitrogen. [R.]

Same as Baccare.

Same as Germicide.

Same as Bafta.

Same as Bailie. [Scot.]

Same as Backsheesh.

the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and Abies balsamea (balsam fir).

A species of tree (Abies balsamea).

Same as Bandelet.

Same as Banderole.

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.