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A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.

A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmæus) whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks.

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

A small European singing bird (Saxicola oenanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat…

Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.

The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

See under Bridge.

vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney.

Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Shak.

Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers. "A wrethe of gold." Chaucer. [He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath. Milton.

A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.

revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. [Obs.] And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser.

Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.

Destitute of a wreath.

Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.

and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several differ…