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Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.

1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the…

Europæus), 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, blows a horn.

A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

See Gillyflower.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.

One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.

The yautia.

Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.

Kansas; a nickname.