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See Quitch grass.

Not embarrassed. Specifically: --

Freedom from embarrassment.

Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton.

See under Brash.

A tall march perennial grass (Paspalum dilatatum) of the southern United States and the American tropics.

An aquatic plant (Schollera graminea) with grassy leaves, and yellow star-shaped blossoms.

A kind of coarse upper coat, or overcoat, formerly worn.

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright- colored.

To wrestle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint. Chaucer.

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Hippocras. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.

ion. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.