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To mow, as stubble. Mason.

In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.

ent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

a, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species e…

A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby. [U.S.]

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

A hump; a protuberance.

follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.

especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

nciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.

c bellows, an apparatus consisting of a water-tight bellowslike case with a long, upright tube, into which water may be poured to illustrate the hydrostatic paradox. -- Hydrostatic paradox, the proposition in hydrostatics that any quantity of water, however small, may be made to counterbalance any weight, however grea…

of the atmosphere. Daniell's hygrometer, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon…

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Intractableness; stubbornness.

Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn. -- In`com*pli"ant*ly, adv.

ose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.