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th a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee. All with united force combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. Dryden.

The male of the honeybee; a drone.

. The turnip flea- beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.

A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

The West Indian sapindaceous tree Melicocca bijuga, which yields the honeyberry; also, the related trees Exothea paniculata and E. trifoliata.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. Dryden.

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Not discoverable; undiscoverable. J. Conybeare.

sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

That maybe maintained.

Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations. [Archaic] Martial flowers (Med.), a reddish crystalline salt of iron; the ammonio-chloride of iron. [Obs.] -- Martial law, the law administered by the military power of a government when it has superseded the civil authority in time of war, or wh…

t may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]

ely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

pposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.