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The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidæ, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chætopoda.

amble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.

nterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden.

danus, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; -- named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like leaves. -- Screw plate, a device for cutting threads on small screws, consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of perforations with internal screws formi…

To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] Evelyn. -- Se*clud"ed*ly, adv. -- Se*clud"ed*ness, n.

em [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins. Evelyn.

wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander. [R.] "The serpenting of the Thames." Evelyn.

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn.

ip. The sharp and small end of the billiard stick, which is shod with brass or silver. Evelyn.

A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. Evelyn.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Slyness.

ingly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.

iled the flesh, and spread the board. Tennyson. To sprad cloth, to unfurl sail. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A young plant. [Obs.] Evelyn.

the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty. Evelyn.