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A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.

A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized. [R.]

See Milreis.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa.

A member of a body of French painters (F. les néo-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.

Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.

The plant producing nicker nuts. [Written also neckar tree and nickar tree.]

The witch-hazel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson.

To breed to excess.

Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. -- O"ver*free"ly, adv.

Excessively greedy.

A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.

of a line of ancestors. Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. Camden. His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir P. Sidney. The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes. Atterbury.

A clause sometimes inserted in contracts or specifications, requiring that a material of construction, as cement, must be of a brand that has stood the test of a specified number of years' use in an important public work. [Cant, U. S.]

A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. [Written also pippul tree, and pipal tree.]