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One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Having a "goosewing."

A heronshaw. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

A woman who rides on horseback.

A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.

The larva of a botfly.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A builder of houses.

is, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine.