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A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

A little bundle; a fascicle.

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

tem at the point of origin of a leaf. -- Foliar trace (Bot.), a particular fibrovascular bundle passing down into the stem from a leaf.

To draw up into a bundle; to roll up. [Ods.]

A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright.

ge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.

a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! Swift.

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland.

kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.

arm, which can be raised or folded down. -- Leaf trace (Bot.), one or more fibrovascular bundles, which may be traced down an endogenous stem from the base of a leaf. -- Leaf tier (Zoöl.), a tortricid moth whose larva makes a nest by fastening the edges of a leaf together with silk; esp., Teras cinderella, found on t…

ke up. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or p…