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A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.

One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.

The American golden-eye.

The moosewood, or striped maple. See Maple.

An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article…

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

aving a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

See Bristle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.

A bristle or bristles. [Scot.]

Having two bristles.

ng air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.

The quality or state of having bristles.