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Nightshade. See 2d Morel.

A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

Greatness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Beyond what has been said; further; besides; in addition; furthermore; also; likewise. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks. Shak.

The Australian crested goatsucker (Ægotheles Novæ-Hollandiæ). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus Cuveiri.

Customs; habits; esp., customs conformity to which is more or less obligatory; customary law.

Moresque. [Obs.]

The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. [Written also mauresque.]

An unsect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora.

The swimming birds.

Not the more; never the more. [Obs.] penser.

Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.

Lower, nether. [Obs.] Holland.

An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.

. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.

A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.

From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.