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Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden.

Being without neigbors. Cowper.

The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.

A large mothlike butterfly (Megathymus yuccæ) of the family Megatimidæ, whose larva bores in yucca roots.

e herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

s of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

ticular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.

Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.…

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zen…

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.

hing, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. Dryden.

A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.