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ound the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. -- Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of…

en pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied…

A dyewood yielded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.]

ooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

e arisen in my mind. Burke. An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope. Hawthorne.

tter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne.

orpiurus, herbs with a circinately coiled pod; -- also called caterpillar. -- Scorpion's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant (Genista Scorpius) of Southern Europe. -- The Scorpion's Heart (Astron.), the star Antares in the constellation Scorpio.

Devoted in person, or by one's own will. Hawthorne.

A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.

a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper.

ening to some court's propitious shine. Pope. The distant shine of the celestial city. Hawthorne.

(L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.

play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.

in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.

er or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another. Some [seeds] fell among thorns; . . . but other fell into good ground. Matt. xiii. 7, 8.

g or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

ly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.

out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. Keble.