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A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope

A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. -- White bedstraw is G. mollugo.

tract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

That which is begun; a rudiment or element. Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. A small part of what he left behind him. Pope.

l cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnite…

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

me best befits thee." Milton. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small. Coleridge.

In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

A small brass Venetian coin. [Obs.]

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]