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r force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

ne of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

A word or phrase expressing affirmation or assent; as, yes, that is so, etc.

er forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

Aftergrass.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

ommon involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.