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A native of Greenland.

A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

See Garland.

A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Affected, with gynandromorphism.

To garland. [Obs.]

A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. Dickens.

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

As tight as can be made by the hand. Totten.

Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera.

A ball for throwing or using with the hand.

A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.