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Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

A perennial plant of the genus Fæniculum (F.vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fenne…

amous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

ant (Pyrethrum, or Chrysanthemum, Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.

A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.

A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus. Cooper's flag, the cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the long leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels to make the latter water-tight. -- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originall…

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.] He rudely flashed the waves about. Spenser. Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.

A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. Gwilt.