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Mariolatry.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

Customarily. [Obs.]

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

Amaranth, 1. [Obs.] Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Same as Amaranth.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

Bitterness. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church. To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shak.