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The wren.

A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. J. S. Mill.

The wren; -- called also tiddy. [Prov. Eng.] The tidy for her notes as delicate as they. Drayton.

A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

An antidiphtheritic agent.

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. -- An"ti*do`tal*ly, adv.

Antidotal. -- n. Antidote; also, a book of antidotes.

or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Serving as an antidote. -- An`ti*dot"ic*al*ly, adv.

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

Same as Asafetida.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvæ are usually bores in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.