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The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia). [U. S.] Gray.

A short, thick man; a dwarf. [Obs.] Carew.

The wood or timber of the hemlock tree. Ground hemlock, or Dwarf hemlock. See under Ground.

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne.

Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.

Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.[Archaic] He [the dwarf] was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.

A dwarf. See Manikin. Shak.

A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.

rising by the union in fertilization of two germ cells both bearing this factor, is TT; a dwarf, being without T, is tt. Crossing these, crossbreeds, Tt, result (called generation F1). In the formation of the germ cells of these crossbreeds a process of segregation occurs such that germ cells, whether male or female, a…

A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.

The condition of being abnormally small in stature; dwarfishness; -- opposed to gigantism.

In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.

To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. Becon.

The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.

nsing. Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.

Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. " Like that Pygmean race." Milton. Pygmy antelope (Zoöl.), the kleeneboc. -- Pygmy goose (Zoöl.), any species of very small geese of the genus Nettapus, native of Africa, India, and Australia. -- Pygmy owl (Zoöl.), the gnome. Pygmy parrot…

But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott. -- To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the streets ran with blood. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance. "Its rivers ran with gold." J. H. Newman.…

A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em. Beau. & Fl.

A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.