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A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.

See Re.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

Chrysophanic acid.

The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine. Monk's rhubarb. (Bot.) See under Monk. -- Turkey rhubarb (Med.), the roots of Rheum Emodi.

Like rhubarb.

The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlæum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.

The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath. Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. Fairfax. Scabbard fish (Zoöl.), a long, compressed, silver-colored tænioid fish (Lepidopus caudatus, or argyreus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is call…

See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.

A sea purse.

A tern.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display.

The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.

Half barbarous.

A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.

Situated under the arachnoid membrane.

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.