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The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

Same as Frostweed.

The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum).

The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.

The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly (Eurytoma hordei), which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.

A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum.)

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

See Sundew.

A tippler. [R.] Shak.

Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

To exceed in woe. [Obs.]

To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

To exceed in worth. [R.]

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

h grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.

The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

Any plant of a sweet taste.