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An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

Mullein.

One who works with another; a co

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

A woman who attends to a dairy.

A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon.

A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

A dairymaid. [Obs.]

A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.

Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.