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of lightning. Sir W. Scott. Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. Hawthorne.

To cover, or coat, with verdigris. [R.] "An old verdigrised brass bugle." Hawthorne.

Cascara buckthorn.

Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as:

forth out of his study, -- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant. Hawthorne.

A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.

eless to the winds. Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. Hawthorne.

A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed. -- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.

efathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a . . . thread of rose-color or gold. Hawthorne. Such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures. W. Irving.

ths old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day. Hawthorne.

ense." Dickens. He bore his age well, and seemed to retain a wiry vigor and alertness. Hawthorne.

ich womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne.

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

Woodbine. Dryden. A garland . . . of woodbind or hawthorn leaves. Chaucer.

be taught. Locke. She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. Hawthorne.

aining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. Hawthorne. Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.

thod of printing the article the (AS. þe), the "y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn. It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.

an old method of printing that (AS. þæt, ðæt) the "y" taking the place of the old letter "thorn" (þ). Cf. Ye, the.

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt] "Ah," he moralizes, "what wonderful instinct on the part of this little creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troops after Osman Digma." R. Jefferies.