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Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.

A crossbowman.[Obs.]

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled. [Obs.] Chauscer.

See Dasewe [Obs.] Chaucer.

Day. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

See Deflourer. Milton.

One who disavows.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.

Extremely weary. Shak.

A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,