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The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.

the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.

A fragrant kind of green tea. Hyson skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

A plant (Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.

n arena, often accompanied by music. -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge. -- Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite. -- Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice. -- Ice water. (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by t…

ually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.

cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

mmerse. See Immerse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

one; a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley.

rm into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass. By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial. The indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Sir T. Browne.

lly the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.

eshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common throu…

he edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.

Having induplicate leaves in vernation.