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A clapboard or feather-edged board used in weatherboarding.

The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc.

A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.

A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.

son. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

To set on fire; to kindle. [Obs.] Fotherby.

To cohabit with. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

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

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

To compel; to drive. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Additional. [R.] Herbert.

To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] Fotherby.

physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

es, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.