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To oppose. [R.] Glanvill.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

f exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceæ) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [R.] -- n.

Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, commo…

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

Severe discipline. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Refuse water after scouring.

meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray.

Having a scraggy neck.

Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

Quality or state of being scragged.

in a scraggy manner.

The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.

Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips.

See Scraggy.

A dragonet, or sculpin.

ck rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called "levying a seigniorage"), the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion. J. S. Mill.

Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.