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To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak.

Prohibited; interdicted. I kniw no spells, use no forbidden arts. Milton. Forbidden fruit. (a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. (b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of…

ach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.

r weight; to matter. It is not sufficient to have attained the name and dignity of a shepherd, not forcing how. Udall.

ally correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.

band; akin to E. heap. See For-, and Heap.] (Mil.), a body of men (called in F. enfants perdus, in G. verloren posten) selected, usually from volunteers, to attempt a breach, scale the wall of a fortress, or perform other extraordinarily perilous service; also, a desperate case or enterprise.

The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne.

A herd, or school, of whales.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

e Pothole. -- Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin. -- Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming…

A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

See Verdin.

See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]

ture and hay. Far West. Festuca scabrella. Guinea grass, hay. South. Panicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Hale…

erbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope.

Rank; degree; position. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. He is a shepherd great in gree. Spnser.

g; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.