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A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Crose.

A valley, or small, shallow dell. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Anything monstrous; a whopper. [Slang] Grose.

hickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree. Grose.

ny smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

ffected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

ryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. Pope. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay.

A suffocating smoke. Grose.

To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

White as snow; very white. "Snow-white and rose-red" Chaucer.

The Guelder-rose. Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

izzed and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow. J. C. Shairp. Every Israelite . . . arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem . . . and prayed. L. Wallace.

A person of consideration or importance. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody. Acts v. 36.

old name of the clove pink, alluding to its having been used to flavor wine. Garlands of roses and sops in wine. Spenser. -- Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Shak.

One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.

A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] Grose.

Slow. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] Grose.