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To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

The state of being many; numerousness. They came as grasshoppers for multitude. Judg. vi. 5. The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.

Any plant of the order Naiadaceæ, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.

A kind of grass (Nardus stricta) of little value, found in Europe and Asia.

An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.

Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far…

The egg of a louse or other small insect. Nit grass (Bot.), a pretty annual European grass (Gastridium lendigerum), with small spikelets somewhat resembling a nit. It is also found in California and Chili.

ab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe. -- Nut grass (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device,…

A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

pores of a substance or through small openings. The latent rill, scare oozing through the grass. Thomson.

ræa aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity. -- Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which i…

plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fr…

An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.

A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.

; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.