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Trashy talk. [Obs.] Ascham.

utionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

The fleshy nature of man. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

f a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

The bushy tail of a fox.

the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

The condition or quality of being bushy.