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Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.

Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious. Johnson.

A cromlech. See Cromlech. [Written also tolmen.]

The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.

Lustful; lewd; lecherous. Shak.

to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech. Judges ix. 3. Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease In both the scales, and each inclines to peace. Parnell.

ht-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens). -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). -- Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson. -- Japanese ivy (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely relat…

lecherous; lustful. Robert of Brunne. -- Lick"er*ish*ly, adv. -- Lick"er*ish*ness, n.

Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

(Myrtaceæ), of which the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.

A lecher; a lewd person. [Obs.] Dryden.

Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] Shak.

Lecherous; lustful; lewd. [Obs.] Shak.

A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] J. Morley.

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, dv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.