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Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

Bugbane.

Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

See Bishop's-weed.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

g; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.

A caddice. See Caddice.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

Logwood.

See Barwood.

The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.

Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.

A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ.