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ropæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

One who, or that which, gnaws.

An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

See Greenbroom.

se), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

A saint. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who harrows.

Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their vision.

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.

An Israelitish woman.

Prepared in hell. Milton.

A harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.

One who hews.

Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.