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A kind of seaweed (Chorda Filum) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.

The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food.

See Sea chickweed.

Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of coral on stones, seaweeds, etc.

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle. To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.

A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.

A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

(Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of FRench brandy.

To ward off; to keep off or out. They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured. Spenser.

A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

ilk gland, above. -- Virginia silk (Bot.), a climbing plant (Periploca Græca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe.

A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.

A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower. Tusser. They move by fits and snatches. Bp. Wilkins.

capsules are used in the West Indies for making tarts and acid drinks. (b) A troublesome weed (Rumex Acetosella), also called sheep sorrel. -- Salt of sorrel (Chem.), binoxalate of potassa; -- so called because obtained from the juice of Rumex Acetosella, or Rumex Axetosa. -- Sorrel tree (Bot.), a small ericaceous t…

d World. -- Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia. -- Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens bipinnata) having achenia armed with needlelike awns. -- Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium) of the south of Europe. -- Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under Potato. -- Spanish red,…

rp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. My spud these nettles from the stone can part. Swyft.