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See Sundew.

A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

A West Indian leguminous tree (Lysiloma Latisiliqua) the wood of which is used for boat trimming.

A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.

A tippler. [R.] Shak.

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).

The oxeye daisy.

Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mils.

To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.

One who worships wrongly.

perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap. False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (Tiarella cardifolia).

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.

Leatherwood.

The mugwort. See Mugwort.